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Steven

Steven \Ste"ven\, n. [AS. stefn, stemn, voice; akin to D. stem, G. stimme, Goth. stibna.]

  1. Voice; speech; language. [Obs. or Scot.]

    Ye have as merry a steven As any angel hath that is in heaven.
    --Chaucer.

  2. An outcry; a loud call; a clamor. [Obs.]
    --Spenser.

    To set steven, to make an appointment. [Obs.]

    They setten steven for to meet To playen at the dice.
    --Chaucer.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Steven

masc. proper name, anglicized form of Stephen (q.v.). A top 20 name for boys born in the U.S. between 1949 and 1976; the -ph- form was the more popular in U.S. until 1960s.

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steven

Etymology 1 n. (label en UK dialectal Northern England Scotland) The voice, now especially when loud or strong. vb. 1 (context transitive obsolete English) To speak; utter; describe; tell of; name. 2 (context transitive obsolete English) To voice an opinion; vote. 3 (context transitive archaic English) To vouch; speak up (for). 4 (context transitive dialectal English) To bespeak. 5 (context intransitive dialectal English) To talk; call out; shout; make a noise. Etymology 2

n. 1 (context obsolete English) A time, occasion. 2 (context obsolete English) A set time; a date or appointment. vb. 1 (context transitive obsolete English) To call; summon; command; appoint. 2 (context intransitive obsolete English) To alternate; take turns.

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Steven
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Steven (Alice Cooper character)

Steven is a fictional character invented by the rock artist Alice Cooper. He appears on the albums Welcome to My Nightmare (1975), Alice Cooper Goes to Hell (1976) -- via "A Bedtime Story" in the liner notes, Hey Stoopid (1991), The Last Temptation (1994), Along Came a Spider (2008), and Welcome 2 My Nightmare (2011).

According to Alice Cooper, he used the Steven character on four or five albums before considering who the Steven character was. He got the idea of using a recurring character through his albums from Kurt Vonnegut using Kilgore Trout through his novels. Alice believes that Steven is a seven-year-old boy that lives in all of us and keeps us young.

Usage examples of "steven".

Stevens connected up the enormous fixed or dirigible projectors to whatever accumulator cells were available through sensitive relays, all of which he could close by means of one radio impulse.

Stevens had read his meters, learning with satisfaction that the full current was still flowing into the accumulators, he began to cut up the meat.

Nadia brought in meat and vegetables and stored them away, Stevens attacked the problem of constructing the pair of tight-beam, auto-dirigible transmitter and receptor units which would connect his great turbo-alternator to the accumulators of their craft, wherever it might be in space.

Stevens complained of the Senate for having defeated the amendment relating to representation, and though assenting to that which was now reported by the committee, thought it inferior to, and less effective than, the one which had failed.

Vince grab the passing seabird by its feet and brandish it at his attacker he would never know, but the struggling penguin was understandably miffed at finding itself faced with what appeared to be a giant rival penguin, and started viciously slashing at Stevens with the sides of its razor-sharp beak.

But on reflection I knew that that would not be enough, because I am not always so fortunate as to encounter a writer as good as Steven Brust this early in his career.

I feel that Steven Brust has this whole catalog of virtues - solid plotting, good prose, insightful characterizations and fine dialogue.

Yes, I feel that Steven Brust has this whole catalog of virtues - solid plotting, good prose, insightful characterizations and fine dialogue.

She lifted her head from her tear-soaked pillow and saw the leather bustier Steven had bought her.

Stevens expressed it, if one man should be excluded from the ballot-box on account of his race, then the whole race should be excluded from the basis of apportionment.

Simon Stevens, the shipping magnate, was seized by men wearing State police uniforms not more than an hour or so ago?

Bucking Mansfield was indeed a dangerous game as Stevens had pointed out.

In the four months since that interview with Mansfield I suppose only Jazz and Stevens had kept me anything like sane.

It is the Presence, maturing within Carol Stevens, growing stronger with each passing day.

David Morrison, Ken Vineberg, Raphael Kasper, Nicholas Boles, Steven Carlip, Arthur Greenspoon, David Mermin, Michael Popowits, and Shani Offen read the manuscript closely and offered detailed reactions and suggestions that greatly enhanced the presentation.