standee

1. 1.

   someone who stands in a place where one might otherwise sit (as a spectator who uses standing room in a theater or a passenger on a crowded bus or train)

   “the allowed number of standees is posted”

   Broaderstander

   train

2. 2.

   a lifesize cardboard cutout (usually of a celebrity)

   “he had his picture taken with a standee of the president”

   Broadercutout

Other forms of standee

plural

standees·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about standee

What does standee mean?

standee means "someone who stands in a place where one might otherwise sit (as a spectator who uses standing room in a theater or a passenger on a crowded bus or train)". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in standee?

standee has 2 syllables: stan-dee. The stress falls on "stan".

Is standee a common word?

standee is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.