STANDING Copy link • STANDING 1. participial adjective, stans. Standing upright, erectus: standing water [Vid: STAGNANT]: a standing camp, castra stativa, -orum, nominative plur.,: a standing army, (we may say) milites perpetui: a standing festival, festi dies anniversarii. 2. s. The act of standing, status, -ūs. A place where one stands, locus. Condition, circumstances, status: conditio. Rank, position, locus (position in civil relations): dignitas (station according to character, family, etc.): sors (the slate of life to which one has been called or born): genus; stirps (family, descent). ☞ Ordo never means rank or standing, but the whole number of persons of a certain rank or standing, a class. Age. Anybody of the same standing as another, aequalis alicui; as myself, sequalis meus.