Associations to the word «Stead»

Wiktionary

STEAD, noun. (obsolete) A place, or spot, in general. [10th-16th   c.]
STEAD, noun. (obsolete) A place where a person normally rests; a seat. [10th-18thc.]
STEAD, noun. (obsolete) A specific place or point on a body or other surface. [11th-15thc.]
STEAD, noun. (obsolete) An inhabited place; a settlement, city, town etc. [13th-16thc.]
STEAD, noun. (obsolete) An estate, a property with its grounds; a farm. [14th-19thc.]
STEAD, noun. (obsolete) The frame on which a bed is laid; a bedstead. [15th-19thc.]
STEAD, noun. (in phrases) (now literary) The position or function (of someone or something), as taken on by a successor. [from 15thc.]
STEAD, noun. Figuratively, an emotional or circumstantial "place" having specified advantages, qualities etc. (now only in phrases). [from 15thc.]
STEAD, verb. To help; to support; to benefit; to assist.
STEAD, verb. To fill place of.

Dictionary definition

STEAD, 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".

Wise words

Love. Fall in love and stay in love. Write only what you love, and love what you write. The key word is love. You have to get up in the morning and write something you love, something to live for.
Ray Bradbury