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

Occasionally in life there are those moments of unutterable fulfillment which cannot be completely explained by those symbols called words. Their meanings can only be articulated by the inaudible language of the heart.
Martin Luther King Jr.