Definitions from Wiktionary (Stead)

▸ noun:  (obsolete) A place, or spot, in general.
▸ noun:  (obsolete) A place where a person normally rests; a seat.
▸ noun:  (obsolete) An inhabited place; a settlement, city, town etc.
▸ noun:  (obsolete) An estate, a property with its grounds; a farm; a homestead.
▸ noun:  (obsolete) The frame on which a bed is laid; a bedstead.
▸ noun:  (in phrases, now literary) The position or function (of someone or something), as taken on by a successor.
▸ noun:  (figurative) An emotional or circumstantial "place" having specified advantages, qualities etc. (now only in phrases).
▸ verb:  (obsolete) To help, support, benefit or assist; to be helpful.
▸ verb:  (obsolete) To fill the stead or place of something.
▸ noun:  (Singapore, colloquial) One's partner in a romantic relationship.
▸ noun:  A surname.
▸ noun:  A locality in Burley parish, Metropolitan Borough of Bradford, West Yorkshire, England (OS grid ref SE1446).

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