take the stand

1. 1.

   give testimony in a court of law

   Synonymstestifyattestbear witness

   Broaderdeclare

   Narrowervouch

   law

Questions about take the stand

What does take the stand mean?

take the stand means "give testimony in a court of law".

What is another word for take the stand?

Close synonyms include testify, attest, bear witness. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is take the stand a common word?

take the stand 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.