Sted

Alternative forms

• stead, stedd

Origin

From Middle English sted, from Old English place, spot, locality

Full definition of sted

Noun

1. (largely obsolete) Alternative spelling of stead
• 1500, Le Bone Florence of RomeThey 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 Chapter , But in the gloomy court was rais'd a bed,
  Stuff'd with black plumes, and on an ebon sted

Adverb

1. short for instead of
• , 2010-02-22, , Hong Kong rejoices over Berlin film prize, (This version CORRECTS Corrects title of movie to ‘Echoes of the Rainbow’ sted ‘Echoes of a Rainbow.’)
• , 2010-05-10, Vicki Smith, Holbrook Mohr, Gulf Oil Spill: Unemployed Fishermen Struggling To Get By, Eds: CORRECTS name of city to 'Pass Christian' sted 'Port'. Moving on general news and financial services. AP Video.