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stad.

a city, a town

4 characters1 syllables approx.Svenska language

Meaning & usage

noun/stɑːd//stats/

  1. a city, a town

    common-gender
    Göteborg är en stad på västkusten
    Tokyo och New York är städer

  2. a place, a stead

    archaic · common-gender · in-compounds
    eldstad
    verkstad

  3. a selvage

    common-gender
Where this word comes from

From Old Swedish staþer, from Old Norse staðr, from Proto-Germanic *stadiz, from Proto-Indo-European *stéh₂tis. The sense “town, city” is a semantic loan from Middle Low German stat, from the same Proto-Germanic noun.

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Last enriched 2026-09-10. Definitions are in English. Romanizations are shown when supplied by the source; syllable estimates are omitted for unsupported scripts.