Associations to the word «Stead»

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.

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".