St.

See also: Appendix:Variations of "st"

English

Alternative forms

Noun

St. (plural Sts.)

  1. Abbreviation of street (in names of specific streets, not as a common noun)
    Alternative forms: st, st.
  3. Abbreviation of Saint (always capitalized).
    Synonyms: S., Sta., Ste.
    St. Vincent and the Grenadines
    • 2016 July 1, Angus Chen, “For Centuries, A Small Town Has Embraced Strangers With Mental Illness”, in National Public Radio‎[1], Washington, D.C.: National Public Radio, archived from the original on 24 March 2017:
      How Geel came to be this way begins with the town's devotion to St. Dymphna, whose church stands in the center of town.
    • 2019 March 3, Dakin Andone, “Fractured after vote against LGBT clergy, weddings, United Methodists face possible split”, in CNN‎[2], Atlanta, Ga.: Warner Bros. Discovery, archived from the original on 20 November 2023:
      After years of debate, hundreds of United Methodists from all over the world gathered in St. Louis last week to settle the denomination’s stance on LGBT clergy and same-sex weddings.
  4. (US) Abbreviation of state (pertaining to US states)

Usage notes

This is the customary abbreviation of Street as used in case citations. See e.g. The Bluebook: A Uniform System of Citation, Nineteenth Edition (2010), "Case Names and Institutional Authors in Citations", Table T6, p. 430-431.

Translations

Anagrams

Catalan

Noun

St. m (uncountable, feminine Sta., feminine plural Sta.s)

  1. abbreviation of Sant

Dutch

Noun

St.

  1. abbreviation of Sint

French

Noun

St.

  1. abbreviation of saint

German

Pronunciation

  • Audio (Germany (Berlin)):(file)

Adjective

St. (indeclinable)

  1. abbreviation of Sankt

Further reading

  • “St.” in Duden online

Portuguese

Noun

St. m (uncountable)

  1. abbreviation of santo

Swedish

Noun

St.

  1. (place name) abbreviation of Stora (“Large, Big, Grand”)
    Synonyms: st:a, s:a
    St. Ekö 7 km ― Big Oak Island 7 km
    St. Slottet hitåt ― Grand Palace this way
  2. (nonstandard) abbreviation of Sankt (“Saint”)
    Synonym: S:t
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