st
abbreviation
st
1 Americanabbreviation
ST
2
American
Real Estate.
-st
3
American
-st
4
American
st.
5
American
abbreviation
-
stanza.
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state.
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statute; statutes.
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stet.
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stitch.
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stone (weight).
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strait.
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street.
St.
6
American
abbreviation
-
Saint.
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statute; statutes.
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Strait.
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Street.
s.t.
7
American
abbreviation
St
1
British
abbreviation
-
Saint (all entries that are usually preceded by St are in this dictionary listed alphabetically under Saint )
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statute
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strait
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street
st.
2
British
abbreviation
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stanza
-
statute
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cricket stumped by
-st
3
British
suffix
st
4
British
abbreviation
st
5
British
abbreviation
Example Sentences
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Rajadhyaksha points out there is a “remarkably consistent pattern p st most geopolitical conflicts …of an initial shock…then a grind back as economic fundamentals reassert themselves.”
From MarketWatch ● Mar. 26, 2026
Leading up to the talks, there could be more friction—including more talk of Canada as the 51 st state.
From Barron's ● Jan. 26, 2026
We were stuck st school going to religious services five times a week, eating bad food, playing sports.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 28, 2023
All I see standing on the main st.
From The Verge ● Aug. 6, 2021
It was almost blindingly white in the late afternoon sun; it looked as if it had been white st washed several times for the brick to be so completely covered, Polly surmised.
From "Copper Sun" by Sharon M. Draper
ST, however, said its personal electronics segment will see lower-than-normal seasonality in the third quarter.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 23, 2026
The brokerage lifts its 2026-2028 core earnings forecasts for ST Engineering by 1%-7%.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 21, 2026
The global investment firm will acquire ST Telemedia Global Data Centres from its parent company, the people said.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 1, 2026
But Mr Mitter, a British historian who holds the ST Lee Chair in US-Asia relations at Harvard’s Kennedy School, sees some differences.
From BBC ● Oct. 29, 2024
His finger shook as he pressed in 2 1 and then ST.
From "Found" by Margaret Peterson Haddix
Here the second person singular ends, not in -st, but in t.
From A Handbook of the English Language by R. G. (Robert Gordon) Latham
In the subjunctive mood the -st disappears as in Anglo-Saxon, xli and hence the forms bute þou gonge, 690, þat þu fonge, 856, &c.; cf. bede, 668.
From The Lay of Havelok the Dane by Unknown
The difficulty which it presents consists in the presence of the -st, letters characteristic of the second person singular, but here found in all the persons alike; as I durst, they durst, &c.
From A Handbook of the English Language by R. G. (Robert Gordon) Latham
In the older stages of Icelandic, on the other hand, the termination was not -st but -sc; which -sc grew out of the reflective pronoun sik.
From A Handbook of the English Language by R. G. (Robert Gordon) Latham
The m is the m in the Anglo-Saxon words innema, &c.; whilst the -st is the common sign of the superlative.
From A Handbook of the English Language by R. G. (Robert Gordon) Latham
Thence he walked up North Main st., and at 10.30 was seen on the corner of Anawan st. where he owns a handsome brick block.
From Slate ● Aug. 4, 2018
The entire stl area was gonna pay for the stadium not just the city of st. louis.
From New York Times ● Jan. 15, 2016
Boxes include 50% of data and error bars indicate extremes with a maximum of two times the box size. st., stage. c, Kaplan–Meier curves for tumours with high versus low frequency of mutations.
From Nature ● Mar. 28, 2012
I ride my bike from 174th st. to downtown every day and I ride by this intersection.
From New York Times ● Oct. 22, 2010
“Will the gentleman who gave me the clock and picture on State st. Oct. 9 call at 258 Cottage Grove-av. Dr. Steere.”
From "The Great Fire" by Jim Murphy
It still rankles, apparently: At that “legal forum” in May 2025 in St. Petersburg, Konstantin Chuychenko, the Russian minister of justice held forth on the subject.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 4, 2026
About the size of St. Thomas in the U.S.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 4, 2026
Mozeliak, who ran the St. Louis Cardinals when the Rams played in St. Louis, said he never has met Kroenke.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 2, 2026
The cabdriver who had dropped me off outside the St. Clement earlier made a comment as I paid for my fare.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 2, 2026
The first thing Glory did was call someone she referred to as Auntie North and tell her that she’d found the Ella St. Clay book.
From "The Way to Rio Luna" by Zoraida Cordova
Polanski, who is currently a London Assembly member but not a member of Parliament, said he was "so excited by the prospect" of being the first Green MP of Holborn and St Pancras.
From BBC ● Sep. 3, 2026
Head teacher Tammy Cooper said large numbers of people were expected in the area for the funeral at St John's Church on Normanby Road.
From BBC ● Sep. 3, 2026
St George's, Epsom and St Helier Hospital Group, failed to pay £123,331.97 to 75 workers.
From BBC ● Sep. 2, 2026
In midfield, Iraola suggested it was not a personnel problem when Newcastle hit Liverpool on the counter twice at St James' Park.
From BBC ● Sep. 2, 2026
Of course it should be St Thomas’s Hospital.
From "Eats, Shoots & Leaves" by Author
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