Stead Definition

stĕd
steads
noun
steads
The place or position of a person or thing as filled by a replacement, substitute, or successor.
To send another in one's stead.
Webster's New World
Advantage, service, or avail.
Webster's New World
A place, site, or locality.
Webster's New World

Figuratively, an emotional or circumstantial "place" having specified advantages, qualities etc. (now only in phrases). [from 15th c.]

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verb
steads
To be of advantage, service, or avail to.
Webster's New World

To help; to support; to benefit; to assist.

Wiktionary
To fill place of.
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Other Word Forms of Stead

Noun

Singular:
stead
Plural:
steads

Origin of Stead

  • From Middle English sted, stede, from Old English stede, from Proto-Germanic *stadiz, from Proto-Indo-European *stéhâ‚‚tis. Related to German Stadt, Gothic 𐍃𐍄𐌰𐌸𐍃 (staþs, “place"), Danish and Swedish stad, Dutch stad, Yiddish שטאָט (shtot).

    From Wiktionary

  • Middle English stede from Old English stā- in Indo-European roots

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

Stead Sentence Examples

  • He was in the place, or stead, of the sovereign.

  • No face which we can give to a matter will stead us so well at last as the truth.

  • Yes, my lord.  She quit and appointed Gabriel in her stead.

  • He appointed in his stead first his brother Mofaddal b.

  • On the defeat of Josiah at Megiddo his younger brother Jehoahaz (or Shallum) was chosen by the Judaeans, but the Egyptian conquerer Necho summoned him to his headquarters at Riblah (south of Hamath on the Orontes) and removed him to Egypt, appointing in his stead Eliakim, whose name ("El[God] raiseth up") was changed to its better-known synonym, Jehoiakim.

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