stead

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Definizione monolingua stead



stead


Verb

stead (third-person singular simple present steads, present participle steading, simple past and past participle steaded)


  1. To help; to support; to benefit; to assist.
  2. To fill place of.
Noun

stead (plural steads)


  1. (obsolete) A place, or spot, in general. [10th-16th c.]
    • 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faery Queene, II:
      For he ne wonneth in one certaine stead, / But restlesse walketh all the world around [...].
  2. (obsolete) A place where a person normally rests; a seat. [10th-18th c.]
    • 1633, P Fletcher, Purple Island:
      There now the hart, fearlesse of greyhound, feeds, / And loving pelican in safety breeds; / There shrieking satyres fill the peoples emptie steads.
  3. (obsolete) A specific place or point on a body or other surface. [11th-15th c.]
    • 1485, Sir Thomas Malory, Le Morte Darthur, VII:
      Thus they fought two houres [...] & in many stedys they were wounded.
  4. (obsolete) An inhabited place; a settlement, city, town etc. [13th-16th c.]
  5. (obsolete) An estate, a property with its grounds; a farm. [14th-19th c.]
    • 1889, H Rider Haggard, Allans Wife:
      But of course I could not do this by myself, so I took a Hottentot—a very clever man when he was not drunk—who lived on the stead, into my confidence.
  6. (obsolete) The frame on which a bed is laid; a bedstead. [15th-19th c.]
  7. (in phrases, now literary) The position or function (of someone or something), as taken on by a successor. [from 15th c.]
    • 1818, Jane Austen, Persuasion:
      She was so wretched and so vehement, complained so much of injustice in being expected to go away instead of Anne; Anne, who was nothing to Louisa, while she was her sister, and had the best right to stay in Henriettas stead!
    • 2011, ""Kin selection"", The Economist, 31 Mar 2011:
      Had Daniel Ortega not got himself illegally on to this year’s ballot to seek a third term, his wife might have run in his stead.
  8. Figuratively, an emotional or circumstantial ""place"" having specified advantages, qualities etc. (now only in phrases). [from 15th c.]
    • 2010, Dan van der Vat, The Guardian, 19 Sep 2010:
      Though small and delicate-looking, she gave an impression of intense earnestness and latent toughness, qualities that stood her in good stead when she dared to challenge the most intrusive communist society in eastern Europe.


Definizione italiano>inglese stead


luogo
posto
vantaggio
vece

Altri significati:


Traduzione 'veloce'



luogo ,posto ,vantaggio ,vece


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