sted

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See also: STED, STed, and stêd

English

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Middle English sted, from Old English stede (“place, spot, locality”)

Noun

sted (plural steds)

  1. (largely obsolete) Alternative spelling of stead
    • 1500, Le Bone Florence of Rome
      They dud wyth hym as wyth þe dedd; They beryed hym in a ryall stedd.
    • 1590, Edmund Spenser:
      And false Duessa in her sted had borne
    • 1927, Hélène Adeline Guerber, Myths of Greece and Rome‎[1], Library of Alexandria, →ISBN:
      But in the gloomy court was rais'd a bed, / Stuff'd with black plumes, and on an ebon sted

Adverb

sted (not comparable)

  1. short for instead of
    • 2010 February 22, “Hong Kong rejoices over Berlin film prize”, in Long Island Press‎[2], retrieved 2012-07-25:
      (This version CORRECTS Corrects title of movie to ‘Echoes of the Rainbow’ sted ‘Echoes of a Rainbow.’)
    • 2010 May 10, Vicki Smith, Holbrook Mohr, “Gulf Oil Spill: Unemployed Fishermen Struggling To Get By”, in Huffington Post‎[3], retrieved 2012-07-25:
      Eds: CORRECTS name of city to 'Pass Christian' sted 'Port'. Moving on general news and financial services. AP Video.

References

  • Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia Supplement, Vol. XII, Page 1269, sted, steddy

Anagrams

Danish

Etymology 1

From Old Norse staðr (“place”).

Pronunciation

Noun

sted n (singular definite stedet, plural indefinite steder)

  1. place
  2. spot
  3. passage, text
  4. homestead
  5. stead
Inflection
Declension of sted
neuter
gender 		Singular Plural
indefinite definite indefinite definite
nominative sted stedet steder stederne
genitive steds stedets steders stedernes

Etymology 2

See stede (“admit into the presence (of an authority)”)

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /stɛːd/, [sd̥ɛːˀð], [sd̥ɛðˀ]

Verb

sted

  1. (deprecated template usage) imperative of stede

Middle English

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Old English stede (“a place, spot, locality”)

Noun

sted (plural steds)

  1. a place, spot, locality
  2. a position or place occupied by someone
    • c. 1525, English Conquest of Ireland:
      helpeth vp þat adoun was y-broȝthe; to hys kynd sted
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  3. a house, property
    • c. 1400, Cursor Mundi:
      All men o rome sal cum ... Tak vr folk and sted wit-all ...
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    • c. 1500, Le Bone Florence of Rome:
      ... broght hym fro hys strenkyþfull stedd To grete Rome agayne.
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  4. a state, condition
    • c. 1450, Merlin:
      more sche hath decerved to be ded / thanne evere dyde my modyr jn ony sted.
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    • c. 1465, Paston Letters:
      It..shul stand me in gret ste [read: sted] her if it mygth be do closly and suerly.
      (please add an English translation of this quotation)

Derived terms

Derived terms

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Descendants

  • English: stead
  • Scots: steid, sted

References

  • Middle English Dictionary

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From Old Norse staðr

Noun

sted n (definite singular stedet, indefinite plural steder, definite plural stedene)

  1. a place

Derived terms

Terms derived from sted

References

Romansch

Alternative forms

  • (Rumantsch Grischun, Sursilvan, Sutsilvan, Surmiran) stad
  • (Vallader) stà

Etymology

From Latin aestās, aestātem.

Noun

sted m (plural steds)

  1. (Puter) summer
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