noun. The place, position, or function properly or customarily occupied by another.

noun. Advantage; service; purpose.

transitive verb. To be of advantage or service to; benefit.

To place; put; set.

To place or put in a position of danger, difficulty, hardship, or the like; press; bestead.

With up: to replace; fill.

To avail; assist; benefit; serve; bo of service, advantage, or use to.

To stop; stay.

noun. A place; place in general.

noun. Place or room which another had or might have: preceded by in: as, David died, and Solomon reigned in his stead. Hence instead.

noun. Space of time; while; moment.

noun. The frame on which a bed is laid: now rarely used except in the compound bedstead.

noun. A steading.

noun. Position or situation of affairs; state; condition; plight.

noun. Assistance; service; use; benefit; advantage; avail: usually in the phrases to stand in stead, to do stead (to render service).

noun. Place, or spot, in general.

noun. Place or room which another had, has, or might have.

noun. A frame on which a bed is laid; a bedstead.

noun. A farmhouse and offices.

noun. in place of. See Instead.

noun. to be of use or great advantage.

noun. undefined

transitive verb. To help; to support; to benefit; to assist.

transitive verb. To fill the place of.

verb. To help; to support; to benefit; to assist.

verb. To fill place of.

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

"_Stead_, n. a place; it is often joined to other words, e.g. hall-stead, a hall or the place where a hall has been, as in the sentence, "I went to the pillared hall-stead;" n. _stead or bestead_, to serve, to aid, e.g. "to stead me in the fight.""

stead of  to do stead  to stand in stead  

to do stead  

bedstead  homestead  in good stead  in one's stead  instead  

function  office  part  rôle  

behalf  

Ed  Fed  Fred  Freda  Ged  

abstracto  advance  apposition  dancing  darkness  

abet  abode  aid  area  assist  

steaded  steading  steads