"their restaurant offers a high standard of service"

• a required or agreed level of quality or attainment

  "half of the beaches fail to comply with European standards"

• (in elementary schools) a grade of proficiency tested by examination or the form or class preparing pupils for such a grade

  "she was still in boarding school and had twice repeated the same standard"

"the wages are low by today's standards"

• principles of conduct informed by notions of honour and decency

  "a decline in moral standards"

• a form of language that is widely accepted as the usual form

  "the idea of the standard is projected backwards on to states of language"

• the prescribed weight of fine metal in gold or silver coins

  "the sterling standard for silver"

• a system by which the value of a currency is defined in terms of gold or silver or both
• a measure for timber, equivalent to 165 cu. ft (4.67 cubic metres)

• used in names of newspapers

  "a report in the Evening Standard"

• a shrub grafted on an erect stem and trained in tree form

  "a standard rose"

• the large, frequently erect uppermost petal of a papilionaceous flower
• one of the inner petals of an iris flower, frequently erect