English

Alternative forms

• stead, stedd

Noun

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, Library of Alexandria, ISBN 9781465523464:

     But in the gloomy court was rais'd a bed, / Stuff'd with black plumes, and on an ebon sted

Adverb

sted ‎(not comparable)

1. short for instead of

   • 2010 February 22, “Hong Kong rejoices over Berlin film prize”, in Long Island Press, 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, retrieved 2012-07-25:

     Eds: CORRECTS name of city to 'Pass Christian' sted 'Port'. Moving on general news and financial services. AP Video.

References

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

Danish

Etymology 1

From Old Norse staðr ‎(“place”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /stɛd/, [sd̥ɛð]

Noun

sted n (singular definite stedet, plural indefinite steder)

1. place
2. spot
3. passage, text
4. homestead
5. stead

Inflection

Etymology 2

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

Pronunciation

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

Verb

sted

1. imperative of stede

Middle English

Etymology

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

Alternative forms

• stedd, stede

Noun

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

Derived terms

References

• Middle English Dictionary

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From Old Norse staðr

Noun

sted n ‎(definite singular stedet, indefinite plural steder, definite plural stedene)

1. a place

Derived terms

References

• “sted” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Romansch

Alternative forms

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

Etymology

From Latin aestās, aestātem.

Noun

sted m (plural steds)

1. (Puter) summer