A document, established by consensus, that provides rules, guidelines, or characteristics for activities or their results or a document that provides, for common and repeated use, rules, guidelines or characteristics for products or related process and production methods, with which compliance is not mandatory.
Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary
standard (noun)1.
a conspicuous object (as a banner) formerly carried at the top of a pole and used to mark a rallying point especially in battle or to serve as an emblem
2.
a) a long narrow tapering flag that is personal to an individual or corporation and bears heraldic devices
b) the personal flag of the head of a state or of a member of a royal family
c) an organization flag carried by a mounted or motorized military unit
d) - banner
3.
something established by authority, custom, or general consent as a model or example - criterion quite slow by today's standards
4.
something set up and established by authority as a rule for the measure of quantity, weight, extent, value, or quality
5.
a) the fineness and legally fixed weight of the metal used in coins
b) the basis of value in a monetary system - the gold standard
6.
a structure built for or serving as a base or support
7.
a) a shrub or herb grown with an erect main stem so that it forms or resembles a tree
b) a fruit tree grafted on a stock that does not induce dwarfing
8.
a) the large odd upper petal of a papilionaceous flower (as of the pea)
b) one of the three inner usually erect and incurved petals of an iris
9.
a musical composition (as a song) that has become a part of the standard repertoire
1.
a) constituting or conforming to a standard especially as established by law or custom - standard weight
b) sound and usable but not of top quality - standard beef
2.
a) regularly and widely used, available, or supplied - standard automobile equipment
b) well-established and very familiar - the standard opera
3.
having recognized and permanent value - a standard reference work
4.
substantially uniform and well established by usage in the speech and writing of the educated and widely recognized as acceptable - standard pronunciation is subject to regional variations
Merriam-Webster Online Thesaurus
standard (adjective)1.
being of the type that is encountered in the normal course of events
SYNONYMS:
average, common, commonplace, cut-and-dried ( cut-and-dry), everyday, garden-variety, normal, prosaic, routine, run-of-the-mill, standard, standard-issue, unexceptional, unremarkable, usual, workadayRELATED WORDS:
regular, typical, unextraordinary; familiar, homely, plain, plain-Jane, popular, vulgar; natural; customary, wonted; insignificant, trivial, unimportant; frequent, habitual; expected, predictableNEAR ANTONYMS:
curious, funny, peculiar, quaint, queer; aberrant, anomalous, atypical, irregular, untypical; rare, recherché, scarce; fantastic ( fantastical), phenomenal; bizarre, far-out, Kafkaesque, outrageous, outré, wacky ( whacky), way-out, weird, wild; eccentric, idiosyncratic, kooky ( kookie), nonconformist, oddball, offbeat, unconventional, unorthodox; freak, freakish; conspicuous, notable, novel, outstanding, prominent, salient, signal, striking, unexampled, unprecedented; singular, unique, unparalleled2.
having or showing the qualities associated with the members of a particular group or kind
SYNONYMS:
archetypal ( archetypical), average, characteristic, normal, regular, representative, standard, trueRELATED WORDS:
common, commonplace, conventional, customary, everyday, ordinary, usual, wonted, workaday; classic, textbook, vintage; expected, familiar, habitual, predictable, routine, unexceptional, unremarkable; predominant, preponderantNEAR ANTONYMS:
uncommon, unconventional, uncustomary, unusual, unwonted; distinctive, especial, exceptional, extraordinary, infrequent, noteworthy, rare, remarkable, singular, special, unexpected, unfamiliar, unique, unpredictable; eccentric, idiosyncratic, nonconformist, peculiar, unknown, unorthodox; curious, erratic, funky, funny, odd, oddball, offbeat, outlandish, quirky, screwy, strange, wacky ( whacky), way-out; bizarre, fantastic ( fantastical), far-out, freak, freakish, kooky ( kookie), out-of-the-way, outrageous, outré, rare, singular, unnatural, weird, wild3.
accepted, used, or practiced by most people
SYNONYMS:
conventional, customary, going, popular, prevailing, prevalent, standard, stock, usualRELATED WORDS:
average, common, everyday, normal, ordinary; regular, routine; epidemic, ubiquitous, universal, widespread; accustomed, wonted; fashionable, in, modish, stylishNEAR ANTONYMS:
abnormal, exceptional, extraordinary, uncommon1.
something set up as an example against which others of the same type are compared
SYNONYMS:
bar, barometer, benchmark, criterion, gold standard, grade, mark, measure, metric, par, touchstone, yardstickRELATED WORDS:
case, example, instance; average, norm, rule; acme, apex, meridian, peak, pinnacle, summit, zenithNEAR ANTONYMS:
aberration, abnormality, deviation2.
a piece of cloth with a special design that is used as an emblem or for signaling
SYNONYMS:
banderole ( banderol), banner, colors, ensign, guidon, jack, pendant ( pendent), pennant, pennon, standard, streamerRELATED WORDS:
bunting, gonfalon; black flag, Jolly Roger, tricolor, union jack, white flag; burgee, semaphore, signaler ( signaller), waft; badge, coat of arms, crest, insignia3.
what is typical of a group, class, or series
SYNONYMS:
norm, normal, par, standardRELATED WORDS:
golden mean, mean, median, middle; commonplace, ordinary, rule, run, status quo, usual; exemplar, representativeNEAR ANTONYMS:
abnormality, anomaly, deviation, exception, rarityArray
the code of good conduct for an individual or group
SYNONYMS:
ethos, morality, morals, norms, principles, standardsRELATED WORDS:
customs, dictates, etiquette, manners, mores, values; beliefs, dogma, faith, tenetsStandard (Wikipedia)
Standard may refer to:
Standard (Wiktionary)
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Etymology
From Middle English standard, from Old French estandart (“gathering place, battle flag”), from Frankish *standahard (literally “stand firm, stand hard”), equivalent to stand + -ard. An alternative etymology derives the second element from Frankish *oʀd (“point, spot, place”) (compare Old French ordé (“pointed”), Old English ord (“point, source, vanguard”), German
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