Definizione monolingua

stale

stale (plural stales)

1. (obsolete) A bird used as a decoy to trap other birds.
2. (obsolete) Any trap or lure.
   • 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, II.i:

     Still as he went, he craftie stales did lay / With cunning traines him to entrap vnwares.

3. (obsolete) A low class of prostitute (originally used as a decoy by other criminals).
   • William Shakespeare, Much Ado About Nothing, Act IV, Scene i, lines 59-60:

     I stand dishonord, that have gone about / To link my dear friend to a common stale [...].

stale (comparative staler, superlative stalest)

1. Having lost its freshness from age. Stale food, for instance, is food which is still edible but has lost its deliciousness.

   The steak is as stale as the beer.

   If you dont enter a room for some days, the air will become stale.

2. No longer new; no longer interesting; established; old; as, stale news, a stale joke, etc.

stale

1. constantly, continually

Definizione dizionario stale

insipido

raffermo

scipito

stantio

trito

vecchio

Altri significati:

(obsolete) A bird used as a decoy to trap other birds.

no longer new or interesting

(obsolete) A person's position, especially in a battle-line.

(obsolete) An ambush.

Having lost its freshness from age. Stale food, for instance, is food which is still edible but has lost its deliciousness.

No longer new; no longer interesting; established; old; as, stale news, a stale joke, etc.

having lost its freshness

(obsolete) A low class of prostitute (originally used as a decoy by other criminals).

old (not person)

(obsolete) Any trap or lure.

(obsolete) A division of armed men posted in a specific place, either for an ambush or for other reasons.

Urine, especially of horses or cattle.