stede
See also: Stede
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stede
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stede
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stede f (plural steden or stedes, diminutive stedetje n)
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stēde f or m
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Middle English edit
Etymology 1 edit
Inherited from Old English stede, steode, styd, from Proto-West Germanic *stadi, from Proto-Germanic *stadiz.
Alternative forms edit
- stad, sted, stedd, stedde, steed, steede, steode, steyd, stid, stide, stode, stud, stude, styd, stydde, styde
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stede (plural stedes)
- A place, area or spot; a part of the Earth or universe:
- c. 1400, Cursor Mundi:
- Paradis is a priue stedd, þar mani mirthes er e-medd.
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- c. 1450, The History of the Holy Grail:
- The kyng in þat Roche had non sted / Where that he Myhte hyden In his hed.
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- An enclosed place (such as a container, room etc.)
- An inhabited place (such as a country, town etc.)
- An area of the body (either of an organ or of the skin)
- 1470–1485 (date produced), Thomas Malory, “(please specify the chapter)”, in [Le Morte Darthur], book VII, [London: […] by William Caxton], published 31 July 1485, →OCLC; republished as H[einrich] Oskar Sommer, editor, Le Morte Darthur […], London: David Nutt, […], 1889, →OCLC:
- Thus they fought two houres […] & in many stedys they were wounded.
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- An estate or property; a house or building (often with its surrounds).
- 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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- A location or position in space (occupied by someone)
- c. 1525, English Conquest of Ireland:
- helpeth vp þat adoun was y-broȝthe; to hys kynd sted
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- A location in a written document.
- A place, station, or position; an appropriate or designated spot:
- The seat or office of a high official.
- (rare) A successor or heir; that replacing another.
- A state of being; a circumstance, condition, or situation.
- 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.
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- A location or position in time; time, moment.
- Strength, effect; capacity for achievement.
- (rare) A bedstead or bedframe.
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References edit
- “stē̆de, n.(1).”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.
Etymology 2 edit
Inherited from Old English stēda, from Proto-West Germanic *stōdijō; compare stod (“stud”).
Alternative forms edit
Pronunciation edit
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stede (plural stedes or steden)
Descendants edit
References edit
- “stẹ̄de, n.(2).”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.
Etymology 3 edit
Verb edit
stede
- Alternative form of steden
Old English edit
Etymology edit
From Proto-West Germanic *stadi. Cognate with Old High German stat, Old Norse staðr.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
stede m
- place
- c. 992, Ælfric, "On the Holy Day of Pentecost"
- Hi heoldon þæt gold unwurðlice, forðan ðe seo gitsung næfde nænne stede on heora heortan: forði hí dydon heora ðing him gemæne, þæt hí on soðre sibbe butan gytsunge beon mihton.
- They held the gold as worthless, because covetousness had no place in their hearts: they made their goods in common, that they might be in true peace without covetousness.
- c. 992, Ælfric, "On the Holy Day of Pentecost"
- position
- late 9th century, King Alfred's translation of Saint Augustine's Soliloquies
- Wōst þū nū þat þē man þǣr on tēhte þāra twelf tungla stēde and þāra sunne færeld?
- Knowest thou what was there taught thee about the positions of (he twelve stars and the path of the sun?
- late 9th century, King Alfred's translation of Saint Augustine's Soliloquies
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Declension of stede (strong i-stem)