Sten

Acronym of Shepherd, Turpin, Enfield. From the names of the weapon's chief designers, Major Reginald Shepherd and Harold Turpin, and EN for Enfield.

Sten (plural Stens)

1. The Sten gun, a family of British 9-millimeter submachine guns used extensively by British and Commonwealth forces throughout World War II, the Korean War and other conflicts.

   Synonyms: STEN, STEn, sten

From North Germanic (Danish Sten, Swedish Sten, Norwegian Sten).

Sten (plural Stens)

1. A surname from the North Germanic languages, equivalent to English Stone, equivalent of Peter or Peters (Petros - stone, rock)

   Synonym: Steen

• NETs, tens, TENS, NEST, nets, sent., ENTs, Ents, Nest, ents, snet, nest, sent

A less common form of Steen, from Old Norse Steinn.

Sten

1. a male given name from Old Norse

From Swedish Sten, interpreted as a variant of Stefan in Estonia.

Sten

1. a male given name from Swedish

Less common form of Stein, from Old Norse Steinn.

Sten

1. a male given name from Old Norse

From Old Norse Steinn, from steinn (“stone”).

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Sten c (genitive Stens)

1. a male given name from Old Norse

• (male given names) Sixten, Torsten, Östen
• (surnames) Stensson

• Roland Otterbjörk: Svenska förnamn, Almqvist & Wiksell 1996, →ISBN
• [1] Statistiska centralbyrån and Sture Allén, Staffan Wåhlin, Förnamnsboken, Norstedts 1995, →ISBN: 25 566 males with the given name Sten living in Sweden on December 31st, 2010, with the frequency peak in the 1930s. Accessed on 19 June 2011.

• sent, tens