stead
IPA: stˈɛd
noun
- (obsolete) A place, or spot, in general.
- (obsolete) A place where a person normally rests; a seat.
- (obsolete) An inhabited place; a settlement, city, town etc.
- (obsolete) An estate, a property with its grounds; a farm; a homestead.
- (obsolete) The frame on which a bed is laid; a bedstead.
- (in phrases, now literary) The position or function (of someone or something), as taken on by a successor.
- (figurative) An emotional or circumstantial "place" having specified advantages, qualities etc. (now only in phrases).
- (Singapore, colloquial) One's partner in a romantic relationship.
- A surname.
verb
- (obsolete) To help, support, benefit or assist; to be helpful.
- (obsolete) To fill the stead or place of something.
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Examples of "stead" in Sentences
- Thanks for doing it in his stead.
- This will hold him in good stead.
- It could be blue or yellow in stead.
- The artist's name on the cover is Stead.
- Abraham then sacrifices the ram in Isaac's stead.
- Stead himself died in the sinking of the Titanic in 1912.
- In 1672 the Steads were taxed on six hearths at the hall.
- In stead he is fascinated by the dead and the living dead.
- In stead of curd becoming milk, the milk itself becomes curd.
- In stead of aligning words themselves, stems are used for aligning.
- That puts it in very different stead from a plea bargain, which is governed by a very different set of reliance interests.
- Republicans need to bring some suggestions for solutions for our state of affairs in stead of grand standing for the media.
- If this would happen maybe we can get answers to questions in stead of just "this bill will save money and get everyone insurance".
- In college, in stead of going home on the weekend we would sometimes drop acid and lay on the floor with zepplin playing on the reel to reel with a speaker on each side of our head.
- They are in stead, establishing fashion policy and in a sense saying, "I dont care if women don't like it --- we are going to flood the market with so much of it so cheaply that they will feel they have no choice."
- _Stead_, n. a place; it is often joined to other words, e.g. hall-stead, a hall or the place where a hall has been, as in the sentence, "I went to the pillared hall-stead;" n. _stead or bestead_, to serve, to aid, e.g. "to stead me in the fight."
- But when it came to opening day or heading out on a trip I could not sleep and was usually up before the alarm went off, but many seasons have gone by and even though I have trained myself to go to bed early and get up early when that time change comes and it is 3: 45 in stead of 4: 45 (yuk!)