stead

CEFRB2

/stɛd/

noun

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  1. 01

    noun

    A place or position, usually in the phrase in someone’s stead.

  2. 02

    noun

    Extra detail

    A place as it relates to a role, service, or ability; capacity.

Examples

  • If you can't come, send someone in your stead.

  • My anorak, such as it was, stood me in good stead.

At a glance

Sits at B2 on the CEFR scale

Senses
5
Parts of speech
1
Citations
5

Deep Dive

noun

Extra meanings

  1. A relational or circumstantial position; standing.

  2. The position or function (of someone or something), as taken on by a successor.

  3. A place as it relates to situation, circumstance, or status; condition.

More examples

In context

  • She was so wretched and so vehement, complained so much of injustice in being expected to go away instead of Anne; Anne, who was nothing to Louisa, while she was her sister, and had the best right to stay in Henrietta's stead!

  • His nurse had told him all about changelings, and how the little people would always try to steal a beautiful human child out of its cradle and put in its stead one of their own ailing, puking brats […]

  • May you stead me? will you pleasure me? shall I know your answer?

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Origin

noun

From Middle English sted, stede (noun) and steden (verb), from Old English stede, from Proto-Germanic *stadiz (“place”), from Proto-Indo-European *stéh₂tis (“standing, location”). Doublet of stad. cognates and related terms Cognate with Scots steid (“location, place”), North Frisian Stair, Stat, steed, stää (“city, town; place, stead”), Saterland Frisian Steede (“place, stead”), Stääd (“city, town”), West Frisian stêd (“city, town”), Bavarian Stådt (“city, town”), Dutch stad, stede (“city, town”), German Stadt (“city, town”), Statt (“abode, place, stead”), Stätte (“place, spot, venue”), German Low German Stee (“location, place”), Luxembourgish Stad (“city, town”), Vilamovian śtaod (“city, t...