Stead
[sted] or [stɛd]
Definition
(noun.) the post or function properly or customarily occupied or served by another; 'can you go in my stead?'; 'took his place'; 'in lieu of'.
Checker: Muriel--From WordNet
Definition
(n.) Place, or spot, in general.
(n.) Place or room which another had, has, or might have.
(n.) A frame on which a bed is laid; a bedstead.
(n.) A farmhouse and offices.
(v. t.) To help; to support; to benefit; to assist.
(v. t.) To fill place of.
Checker: Zachariah
Definition
n. the place which another had or might have: a fixed place of abode: use help service as in 'To stand in good stead.'—n. Steading the barns stables &c. of a farm.
Inputed by Conrad
Examples
- A praetor, therefore, was appointed to administer it in his stead. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- The philosopher himself has lost the love of truth, and the soldier, who is of a simpler and honester nature, rules in his stead. Plato. The Republic.
- And Dr. Pillule is my very good friend, was the answer, in perfect English; but he is busy at a place three leagues off, and I am come in his stead. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- I'll not stand you an inch in the stead of a seraglio, I said; so don't consider me an equivalent for one. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- What would you advise me to use in its stead, father? Charles Dickens. Hard Times.
- And purchase in his stead some sweetly pooty pug or poodle--something appropriate to the fair sex. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- He has given me in its stead perfect love. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- But no deep plan, no careful cunning could have stood him in such good stead. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
- If the man's heer, Slackbridge, let's hear the man himseln, 'stead o' yo. Charles Dickens. Hard Times.
- Her dignity stood her in no stead. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
Typist: Robinson