still

Meanings

1. 1
   adv

   Without moving or making a sound.

   They sat as still as statues during the ceremony.

2. 2
   adj

   Not moving; calm and quiet.

   Please sit there and stay still!

3. 3
   adj

   Of a drink: not fizzy; without bubbles.

   Would you like sparkling or still water?

4. 4
   noun

   A single photograph taken from a film, often used for advertising.

   They used a still from the movie on the poster.

From Middle English stille (“motionless, stationary”), from Old English stille (“still, quiet”), from Proto-West Germanic *stillī, from Proto-Indo-European *(s)telH- (“to be silent; to be still”). Cognate with Scots stil (“still”), Saterland Frisian stil (“motionless, calm, quiet”), West Frisian stil (“quiet, still”), Dutch stil (“quiet, silent, still”), Low German still (“quiet, silent, still”), German still (“still, quiet, tranquil, silent”), Swedish stilla (“quiet, silent, peaceful”), Icelandic stilltur (“set, quiet, calm, still”). Related to stall. (noun: Falkland Islander): Military slang…

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