How do you use the word "stout" in a sentence?

Here are real-life examples of using "stout": He looked small beside my father's stout body. My uncle is slender, but my aunt is stout.

Stout Meaning

/staʊt/

Definition, CEFR level B2, pronunciation, examples, and quiz.

Definition

adjLarge; bulky.

adjBold, strong-minded.

Sentence Examples

He looked small beside my father's stout body.

My uncle is slender, but my aunt is stout.

Synonyms & Antonyms

Synonyms:

fat sturdy hardy

Antonyms:

thin irresolute

CEFR Practice Quiz

The ____ sailor easily carried the heavy crate up the steep gangplank without stopping.

CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)

The old gate was secured with a ____ wooden beam to prevent anyone from entering the courtyard.

Word Origin & History

From Middle English stoute, from Old French estout (“brave, fierce, proud”) (Modern French dialectal stout (“proud”)), from earlier Old French estolt (“strong”), from Frankish *stolt, *stult (“bold, proud”), from Proto-Germanic *stultaz (“bold, proud”), from Proto-Indo-European *stel- (“to put, stand”). Cognate with Dutch stout (“stout, bold, naughty”), Low German stolt (“stately, proud”), German stolz (“proud, haughty, arrogant, stately”), Old Norse stoltr (“proud”) (Danish stolt (“proud”), Icelandic stoltur (“proud”)). Meaning "strong in body, powerfully built" was first attested in c. 1386, but has been to a large extent displaced by the euphemistic meaning "thick-bodied, fat and large," which is first recorded 1804. Original sense preserved in stout-hearted (1552). The noun "strong, dark-brown beer" is first recorded 1677, from the adjective.

Literary Quotations & Historical Citations

"Yossarian walked out of the office and down the stairs into the dark, tomblike street, passing in the hall the stout woman with warts and two chins, who was already on her way back in." — 1961 November 10, Joseph Heller, “The Eternal City”, in Catch-22 […], New York, N.Y.: Simon and Schuster, →OCLC, page 427:

"Art thou but Captaine of a thouſand horſe, That by Characters grauen in thy browes, And by thy martiall face and ſtout aſpect, Deſeru’ſt to haue the leading of an hoſte?" — c. 1587–1588 (date written), [Christopher Marlowe], Tamburlaine the Great. […] The First Part […], 2nd edition, part 1, London: […] [R. Robinson for] Richard Iones, […], published 1592, →OCLC; reprinted as Tamburlaine the Great (A Scolar Press Facsimile), Menston, Yorkshire; London: Scolar Press, 1973, →ISBN, Act I, scene ii:

"a stouter champion never handled sword." — 1591 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The First Part of Henry the Sixt”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene iv]:

"He quickly lost the character of a bold, stout, magnanimous man." — 1702–1704, Edward [Hyde, 1st] Earl of Clarendon, (please specify |book=I to XVI), in The History of the Rebellion and Civil Wars in England, Begun in the Year 1641. […], Oxford, Oxfordshire: Printed at the [Sheldonian] Theater:

"The lords all stand / To clear their cause, most resolutely stout." — 1609, Samuel Daniel, The Civile Wares:

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