 5 definitions found
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
stead
noun: the function or position properly or customarily occupied or
served by another; "can you go in my stead?"; "took his
place"; "in lieu of" [syn: {position}, {place}, {lieu}]
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Stead \Stead\, verb (used with an object)
1. To help; to support; to benefit; to assist.
Perhaps my succour or advisement meet,
Mote stead you much your purpose to subdue.
--Spenser.
It nothing steads us
To chide him from our eaves. --Shak.
2. To fill the place of. [Obs.] --Shak.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Stead \Stead\ (st[e^]d), noun [OE. stede place, AS. stede; akin to
LG. & D. stede, OS. stad, stedi, OHG. stat, G. statt,
st["a]tte, Icel. sta[eth]r, Dan. sted, Sw. stad, Goth.
sta[thorn]s, and E. stand. [root]163. See {Stand}, and cf.
{Staith}, {Stithy}.]
1. Place, or spot, in general. [Obs., except in composition.]
--Chaucer.
Fly, therefore, fly this fearful stead anon.
--Spenser.
2. Place or room which another had, has, or might have.
''Stewards of your steads.'' --Piers Plowman.
In stead of bounds, he a pillar set. --Chaucer.
3. A frame on which a bed is laid; a bedstead. [R.]
The genial bed,
Sallow the feet, the borders, and the stead.
--Dryden.
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. --Atterbury.
Here thy sword can do thee little stead. --Milton.
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
30 Moby Thesaurus words for "stead":
abet, abode, aid, area, assist, bearings, bench mark, district,
do for, emplacement, help out, hole, latitude and longitude, lieu,
locale, locality, location, locus, pinpoint, place, placement,
point, position, region, site, situation, situs, spot, whereabout,
whereabouts
From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]:
Stead, NM
Zip code(s): 88438
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