plain language
noun
1Speech or writing that is direct, straightforward, unostentatious, or easily understood; (occasionally also, especially with intensifier) coarse or vulgar language.
2The manner of speech formerly traditional among members of the Religious Society of Friends (Quakers) (now rare ).
3= plain text.
Origin
Late Middle English; earliest use found in John Lydgate (c1370–c1449), poet and prior of Hatfield Regis.
- stand pat
- standpipe
- standpoint
- St Andrews
- St Andrew's cross
- stand sentry
- stand someone in good stead
- stand someone off
- stand someone up
- standstill
- standstill agreement
- stand surety
- stand the test of time
- stand to
- stand treat
- stand trial
- stand up
- stand up and be counted
- stand-up comedy
- stand up for
- stand up to
- Stanford, A. Leland
- Stanford-Binet test
- Stanford, Sir Charles
- stanhope