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sted

EnglishEdit

Alternative formsEdit

EtymologyEdit

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

NounEdit

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

AdverbEdit

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.

ReferencesEdit

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

AnagramsEdit

DanishEdit

Etymology 1Edit

From Old Norse staðr (“place”).

PronunciationEdit

NounEdit

sted n (singular definite stedet, plural indefinite steder)

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

Etymology 2Edit

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

PronunciationEdit

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

VerbEdit

sted

  1. imperative of stede

Middle EnglishEdit

Alternative formsEdit

EtymologyEdit

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

NounEdit

sted (plural steds)

  1. a place, spot, locality
    Paradis is a priue stedd, þar mani mirthes er e-medd. — Cursor Mundi, c1400
    The kyng in þat Roche had non sted / Where that he Myhte hyden In his hed. — The History of the Holy Grail, c1450
  2. a position or place occupied by someone
    helpeth vp þat adoun was y-broȝthe; to hys kynd sted — English Conquest of Ireland, 1525
  3. a house, property
    All men o rome sal cum ... Tak vr folk and sted wit-all ... — Cursor Mundi, c1400
    ... broght hym fro hys strenkyþfull stedd To grete Rome agayne. — Le Bone Florence of Rome, 1500
  4. a state, condition
    more sche hath decerved to be ded / thanne evere dyde my modyr jn ony sted. — Merlin, 1450
    It..shul stand me in gret ste [read: sted] her if it mygth be do closly and suerly. — Paston Letters, 1465
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Derived termsEdit

Derived terms

ReferencesEdit

  • Middle English Dictionary

Norwegian BokmålEdit

RomanschEdit

Alternative formsEdit

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

EtymologyEdit

From Latin aestās, aestātem.

NounEdit

sted m (plural steds)

  1. (Puter) summer
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