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• stead — ► NOUN ▪ the place or role that someone or something should have or fill: she was appointed in his stead. ● stand in good stead Cf. ↑stand in good stead ORIGIN Old English …   English terms dictionary

• stead — [[t]ste̱d[/t]] 1) PHRASE: PHR after v If you do something in someone s stead, you replace them and do it instead of them. [FORMAL] We hope you will consent to act in his stead... My grandmother and aunt will be there in my parents stead. 2)… …   English dictionary

• stead — /stɛd / (say sted) noun 1. the place of a person or thing as occupied by a successor or substitute: since he could not come, his brother came in his stead. 2. Obsolete a place or locality. –verb (t) 3. Obsolete to be of service, advantage, or… …  

• stead — noun the place or role that someone or something should have or fill: she was appointed in his stead. Phrases stand someone in good stead be advantageous to someone over time or in the future. Origin OE stede place , of Gmc origin …   English new terms dictionary

• Stead Air Force Base —     …   Wikipedia

• stead — [sted] n [: Old English; Origin: stede place ] 1.) do sth in sb s stead formal to do something that someone else usually does or was going to do ▪ Pearson was appointed to go in Harrison s stead. 2.) stand/serve/hold sb in good stead to be very… …   Dictionary of contemporary English

• stead´fast|ness — stead|fast «STEHD fast, fahst, fuhst», adjective. 1. loyal; unwavering; not changing; firm of purpose: »Benjamin Franklin was a steadfast servant of his country. SYNONYM(S): unswerving. 2. firmly fixed; not moving: »a steadfast gaze. By its own… …   Useful english dictionary

• stead´fast|ly — stead|fast «STEHD fast, fahst, fuhst», adjective. 1. loyal; unwavering; not changing; firm of purpose: »Benjamin Franklin was a steadfast servant of his country. SYNONYM(S): unswerving. 2. firmly fixed; not moving: »a steadfast gaze. By its own… …   Useful english dictionary

• stead|fast — «STEHD fast, fahst, fuhst», adjective. 1. loyal; unwavering; not changing; firm of purpose: »Benjamin Franklin was a steadfast servant of his country. SYNONYM(S): unswerving. 2. firmly fixed; not moving: »a steadfast gaze. By its own weight made… …   Useful english dictionary

• Stead, C.K. — ▪ New Zealander author in full  Christian Karlson Stead  born Oct. 17, 1932, Auckland, N.Z.       New Zealand poet and novelist who gained an international reputation as a critic with The New Poetic: Yeats to Eliot (1964), which became a standard …   Universalium

• Stead, William Thomas — ▪ British journalist born , July 5, 1849, Embleton, Northumberland, Eng. died April 15, 1912, at sea, North Atlantic  British journalist, editor, and publisher who founded the noted periodical Review of Reviews (1890).       Stead was educated at …   Universalium