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Stead   /stɛd/   Listen
noun
Stead  n.  
1.
Place, or spot, in general. (Obs., except in composition.) "Fly, therefore, fly this fearful stead anon."
2.
Place or room which another had, has, or might have. "Stewards of your steads." "In stead of bounds, he a pillar set."
3.
A frame on which a bed is laid; a bedstead. (R.) "The genial bed, Sallow the feet, the borders, and the stead."
4.
A farmhouse and offices. (Prov. Eng. & Scot.) Note: The word is now commonly used as the last part of a compound; as, farmstead, homestead, roadstead, etc.
In stead of, in place of. See Instead.
To stand in stead, or To do stead, to be of use or great advantage. "The smallest act... shall stand us in great stead." "Here thy sword can do thee little stead."


verb
Stead  v. t.  
1.
To help; to support; to benefit; to assist. "Perhaps my succour or advisement meet, Mote stead you much your purpose to subdue." "It nothing steads us To chide him from our eaves."
2.
To fill the place of. (Obs.)





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"Stead" Quotes from Famous Books



... upon their breasts. The sons of France, and of America, hold forever in their hearts the memory of their honor. We are all one family now—France and America—and so I send to you three brothers—not in place of, but in the stead of those others. They come to give you love and service in the ...
— The Best Short Stories of 1920 - and the Yearbook of the American Short Story • Various
... was restored and misery with it. The Admiral employed himself in the library, in questioning the men and women, with a view to discover some more certain clew to pursuit, or possibly some accomplice, his experience as president of courts-martial standing him in such good stead that he terrified them all, and I feel certain, had any been a party to the flight, it must have been known. So valuable is manly presence of mind in ...
— The Ladies - A Shining Constellation of Wit and Beauty • E. Barrington
... of the previous season, was not returning next term, and Mike was to reign in his stead. He liked the prospect, but it certainly carried with it a rather awe-inspiring responsibility. At night sometimes he would lie awake, appalled by the fear of losing his form, or making a hash of things by choosing the wrong men to play for the school and leaving the right men out. ...
— Mike • P. G. Wodehouse
... escaped my notice that Jupiter did not exist, and that Vortex now reigned in his stead. But you have taught me nothing as yet concerning the clap ...
— The Clouds • Aristophanes
... value you must go to the book. But I will observe here that an Immortality liable at any moment to betray itself fatuously by the forcible incantations of Mr. Stead or Professor Crookes is scarcely worth having. Can you imagine anything more squalid than an Immortality at the beck and call of Eusapia Palladino? That woman lives on the top floor of a Neapolitan house, ...
— Notes on Life and Letters • Joseph Conrad


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