instead

English

Alternative forms

• enstead

Etymology

in +‎ stead, from Middle English ine (“in”) + stede (“stead”).

Pronunciation

• IPA: /ɪn.ˈstɛd/

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• Rhymes: -ɛd

Adverb

instead (not comparable)

1. In the place of something (usually mentioned earlier); as a substitute or alternative

   I was going to go shopping, but I went dancing instead.

Synonyms

• in lieu of

Translations

in the place of

• Arabic: بدلاً من (ar) (bádalan min)
• Aramaic:

  Syriac: ܚܠܦ (ħlap)

• Bulgarian: вместо (bg) (vmésto)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 代替 (cmn) (dàitì), 抵作 (cmn) (dǐzuò)

• Czech: namísto (cs), místo toho (cs)
• Dutch: in plaats van (nl)
• Esperanto: anstataŭe (eo)
• Finnish: asemasta (fi), jonkun tilalle (fi), sen sijaan (fi)
• French: au lieu de (fr)
• German: anstatt (de), statt (de)
• Hebrew: please add this translation if you can
• Hindi: please add this translation if you can
• Hungarian: helyett (hu)
• Italian: in luogo di (it), invece (it)
• Japanese: ...の代わりに (ja) (...no kawari-ni)

• Korean: 대신에 (ko) (daesine)
• Norwegian: isteden (no), isteden for, i stedet (no), i stedet for
• Polish: zamiast (pl)
• Portuguese: em vez de (pt), ao invés de (pt)
• Romanian: în loc de (ro)
• Russian: вместо (ru) (vmésto) (+ genitive case)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: место (sh) / misto (sh) / мјесто (sh), уместо (sh) / умјесто (sh)

  Roman: mesto (sh) / misto (sh) / mjesto (sh), umesto (sh) / umjesto (sh), u zamjenu (sh)

• Slovene: namésto (sl)
• Spanish: en vez de (es)
• Swedish: istället (sv)
• Thai: แทน (th) (taen)
• Turkish: yerine (tr)
• Vietnamese: thay vì (vi)

Derived terms

• instead of

Statistics

• Most common English words before 1923: caught · below · window · #654: instead · giving · presence · learned

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