stud Synonyms & Antonyms

Stud in a Sentence

at stud

a collar with studs

She's wearing studs in her ears.

He is a student of life.

Haras du Pin, founded in 1730, is the biggest national stud in France …

Next day, the stud was led from his stall and turned into the breaking pen.

He plays Torch, the shirtless soap-opera stud, with a restless, street-corner sexiness.

… She's All That, in which high school stud Freddie Prinze Jr. transforms dork Rachel Leigh Cook into a beauty queen.

The world, anyway the part of it that cares, has heard of [Warren] Beatty's reputation as stud and of his affair with Christie.

… Portland was one of the more active teams in the offseason, acquiring potential All-Star Harvey Grant and rebounding stud Chris Dudley.

… the team will look to start over at the position with a young stud. …

Stud poker, where each player is dealt their first card face-down and the next four cards face-up, didn't come into existence for many years (until about 1864).

a stud poker player/game/hand

An M.B.A. from Harvard, he viewed seven-card stud as a test of money management …

When I was dealing I usually proposed five-card stud, a rudimentary game in which one's luck is quickly determined.

a sky studded with stars

a career studded with honors

she promised her friend that the blind date would be a real stud

He plays Torch, the shirtless soap-opera stud, with a restless, street-corner sexiness. / … She's All That, in which high school stud Freddie Prinze Jr. transforms dork Rachel Leigh Cook into a beauty queen.

… Portland was one of the more active teams in the offseason, acquiring potential All-Star Harvey Grant and rebounding stud Chris Dudley. / … the team will look to start over at the position with a young stud. …

Stud poker, where each player is dealt their first card face-down and the next four cards face-up, didn't come into existence for many years (until about 1864). / a stud poker player/game/hand / An M.B.A. from Harvard, he viewed seven-card stud as a test of money management … / When I was dealing I usually proposed five-card stud, a rudimentary game in which one's luck is quickly determined.

a sky studded with stars / a career studded with honors

Word Forms & Grammar

studs

five-card stud

seven-card stud

stud

stud poker

stud·ded

stud·ding

studded

studding

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stud (plural studs)

stud (third-person singular simple present studs, present participle studding, simple past and past participle studded)

Words That Rhyme With Stud

Origin of Stud

Origin 1: Middle English stod, from Old English stōd; akin to Old Church Slavic stado flock and probably to Old High German stān to stand stand

Origin 2: Middle English stode, from Old English studu; akin to Middle High German stud prop, Old Norse stoth post

Origin 3: From Middle English stood, stod, from Old English stōd, from Proto-West Germanic *stōd, from Proto-Germanic *stōdą. Cognate with Middle Low German stōt, German Stute, Dutch stoet and Old Norse stóð. The phonetic development is the same as in blood, flood, which unlike stud were not adapted orthographically.

Origin 4: Inherited from Middle English stude, from Old English studu, from Proto-West Germanic *stuþ, from Proto-Germanic *stuþs.

First Known Use

before 12th century

circa 1506