stead

IPA: stˈɛd

(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.

Examples of "stead" in Sentences

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!)