st is used as a written abbreviation for stone when you are mentioning someone's weight.
[British]
He weighs 11st 8lb.
St
also st.
language note: The form SS or SS. is used as the plural for meaning [sense 2].
1.
St is a written abbreviation for street.
...116 Princess St.
2.
St is a written abbreviation for saint.
...St Thomas.
...the Church of SS Cornelius and Cyprian.
-st
suffix
You add -st to numbers written in figures and ending in 1–but not 11–in order to form ordinal numbers.
...Sunday 1st August 1993.
...the 101st Airborne Division.
st in British English1
abbreviation for
short ton
short ton in British English1
noun
the full name for ton1 (sense 2)
ton in British English1
(tʌn)
noun
1. Also called: long ton British
a unit of weight equal to 2240 pounds or 1016.046909 kilograms
2. Also called: short ton, net ton US
a unit of weight equal to 2000 pounds or 907.184 kilograms
3. Also called: metric ton, tonne
a unit of weight equal to 1000 kilograms
4. Also called: freight ton
a unit of volume or weight used for charging or measuring freight in shipping. It depends on the type of material being shipped but is often taken as 40 cubic feet, 1 cubic metre, or 1000 kilograms
freight is charged at £50 per ton of 1 cubic metre
5. Also called: measurement ton, shipping ton
a unit of volume used in shipping freight, equal to 40 cubic feet, irrespective of the commodity shipped
6. Also called: displacement ton
a unit used for measuring the displacement of a ship, equal to 35 cubic feet of sea water or 2240 pounds
7. Also called: register ton
a unit of internal capacity of ships equal to 100 cubic feet
st in British English2
the internet domain name for
São Tomé and Principe
St in British English
abbreviation for
1.
Saint (all entries that are usually preceded by St are in this dictionary listed alphabetically under Saint)
2.
statute
3.
strait
4.
street
st. in British English
abbreviation for
1.
stanza
2.
statute
3. cricket
stumped by
-st in British English
suffix
a variant of -est2
St in American English
1.
Saint
terms beginning with St. are entered in this dictionary as if spelled St-
2.
stoke(s) (the unit)
3.
Strait
4.
Street
st in American English
1.
short ton(s)
2.
stanza
3.
state
4.
statute(s)
5.
stet
6.
stitch
7.
stone(s) (unit of weight)
-st in American English
-est (sense 2)
didst
Examples of 'st' in a sentence
st
st, I went back into my chamber and shut the door behind me.
Robin Hobb THE GOLDEN FOOL: BOOK TWO OF THE TAWNY MAN (2002)
An hour later dawn had come, and as the early morning mist cleared every man could see that the cre st they had reached was a false one.
Townsend, Eileen IN LOVE AND WAR
But, for the re st, he could almost look after himself and he was always off playing.