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STEAD
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
The post or function properly or customarily occupied or served by another
Example:
in lieu of
Synonyms:
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
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:
And then, when at last this question was set aside, that of the rival claims to championships at different weights came on in its stead, and again angry words flew about and challenges were in the air.
(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
We'd have six dogs at the present time, 'stead of three, if it wasn't for her.
(White Fang, by Jack London)
A change seemed to come over the latter, and he watched curiously, till "$2.00" burned in its stead.
(Martin Eden, by Jack London)
"I'll not stand you an inch in the stead of a seraglio," I said; so don't consider me an equivalent for one.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
If you'll believe me, returned Mr. Peggotty, Missis Gummidge, 'stead of saying thank you, I'm much obleeged to you, I ain't a-going fur to change my condition at my time of life, up'd with a bucket as was standing by, and laid it over that theer ship's cook's head 'till he sung out fur help, and I went in and reskied of him.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
For moral courage is a worthless asset on this little floating world. Leach, one of the men who were murdered, had moral courage to an unusual degree. So had the other man, Johnson. Not only did it not stand them in good stead, but it destroyed them. And so with me if I should exercise what little moral courage I may possess.
(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)
There was none of that white sleek skin and shimmering play of sinew which made Wilson a beautiful picture, but in its stead there was a rugged grandeur of knotted and tangled muscle, as though the roots of some old tree were writhing from breast to shoulder, and from shoulder to elbow.
(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
There were other run-ways and alleys where rabbits were hanging in the air, and the wolf-pair prospected them all, the she-wolf leading the way, old One Eye following and observant, learning the method of robbing snares—a knowledge destined to stand him in good stead in the days to come.
(White Fang, by Jack London)
His sisters were gone to Morton in my stead: I sat reading Schiller; he, deciphering his crabbed Oriental scrolls.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
In her stead, the perfect likeness of the picture, a child likeness no more, moves about the house; and Agnes—my sweet sister, as I call her in my thoughts, my counsellor and friend, the better angel of the lives of all who come within her calm, good, self-denying influence—is quite a woman.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
