STEAD

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does stead mean? 

• STEAD (noun)
  The noun STEAD has 1 sense:

1. the post or function properly or customarily occupied or served by another

  Familiarity information: STEAD used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• STEAD (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The post or function properly or customarily occupied or served by another

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Synonyms:

lieu; place; position; stead

Context example:

in lieu of

Hypernyms ("stead" is a kind of...):

function; office; part; role (the actions and activities assigned to or required or expected of a person or group)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "stead"):

behalf (as the agent of or on someone's part (usually expressed as 'on behalf of' rather than 'in behalf of'))

 Context examples 

His early training, when he fought with Lip-lip and the whole puppy-pack, stood him in good stead.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

Because I had come in, in Mary's stead, with the tray.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

Dr. Seward tried one or two skeleton keys, his mechanical dexterity as a surgeon standing him in good stead.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

This had stood him in good stead a thousand times and trained him as an observer as well.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

An image where, instead of a customary parameter such as activity concentration, other computed results are displayed at each pixel (voxel) in their stead.

(Parametric Image, NCI Thesaurus)

I shall not see many more new faces in Trotwood's stead, Wickfield, said the Doctor, warming his hands; I am getting lazy, and want ease.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

My first mate’s berth on the sealing grounds stood me in good stead, and I cleared the inner cove and laid a long tack along the shore of the outer cove.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

Buck’s marvellous quickness and agility stood him in good stead.

(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)

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 Henrietta's stead!

(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)

Let me but escape into my laboratory door, give me but a second or two to mix and swallow the draught that I had always standing ready; and whatever he had done, Edward Hyde would pass away like the stain of breath upon a mirror; and there in his stead, quietly at home, trimming the midnight lamp in his study, a man who could afford to laugh at suspicion, would be Henry Jekyll.

(The Strange Case Of Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde, by Robert Louis Stevenson)