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abbreviation stumped: used in the scorebook, following the name of a batsman and preceding the name of the wicket-keeper, to indicate the manner of the batsman’s dismissal and the player responsible for it. In earlier times dismissals by stumping were usually credited to the wicket-keeper alone, but since the early 19th century it has been usual to mention the bowler as well (thus ‘st Dhoni b Harbhajan’).
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abbreviation in Internet addresses, the top-level domain for São Tomé and Príncipe

noun a person who led a very holy life, and is recognised by the Christian church
noun a very good or devoted person
noun a road in a town, usually with houses on each side
noun used with names

Latin sancīre meant ‘consecrate’ (it was formed from the same base as produced sacer ‘holy’, source of English sacred, sacrifice, etc). Its past participle was sanctus. This came to be used as an adjective meaning ‘holy, sacred’, and in due course as a noun too, ‘holy person’. English originally borrowed it direct from Latin, as sanct, but this was superseded in the 12th century by saint, acquired via Old French. other English words based on the Latin stem sanct- include sanction, sanctity, etc, and saunter may be related to saint.
Etymologically, a street is a road that has been ‘spread’ – with paving stones, that is. A ‘paved’ road, in other words. The term was borrowed into prehistoric west Germanic from Latin strāta, short for via strāta ‘paved road’. Strāta was the feminine form of strātus, the past participle of sternere ‘spread out’ (source of English strata, stratify, etc). The related Germanic forms are German strasse and Dutch straat, while the term is also preserved in the romance languages, in Italian strada, which was borrowed by Romanian as strada.

adjective ‘streetwise’ or having ‘street credibility’. A term of approbation originating in black argot of the 1970s.

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