steadとは意味・読み方・使い方

語源 1

From Middle English sted, stede (noun) and steden (verb), from 古期英語 stede, from Proto-Germanic *stadiz, from Proto-Indo-European *stéh₂tis. Cognate with German Stadt, Statt and Stätte, Gothic ���������� (staþs, “place”), Danish and Swedish stad, Norwegian Bokmål sted, Scots steid, Dutch stad, Yiddish שטאָט‎ (shtot). See the doublet stasis.

名詞

stead (複数形 steads)

1. (obsolete) A place, or spot, in general. [10^th-16th c.]
   • 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Qveene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for VVilliam Ponsonbie, OCLC 960102938, book II:

     For he ne wonneth in one certaine stead, / But restlesse walketh all the world around […].

2. (obsolete) A place where a person normally rests; a seat. [10^th-18^thc.]
   • 1633, P. Fletcher, Purple Island:

     There now the hart, fearlesse of greyhound, feeds, / And loving pelican in safety breeds; / There shrieking satyres fill the people's emptie steads.

3. (obsolete) An inhabited place; a settlement, city, town etc. [13^th-16^thc.]
4. (obsolete) An estate, a property with its grounds; a farm; a homestead. [14^th-19^thc.]
   • 1889, H. Rider Haggard, Allan's Wife:

     But of course I could not do this by myself, so I took a Hottentot—a very clever man when he was not drunk—who lived on the stead, into my confidence.

5. (obsolete) The frame on which a bed is laid; a bedstead. [15^th-19^thc.]
   • 1693, John Dryden, Baucis and Philemon

     The genial bed / Sallow the feet, the borders, and the stead.

6. (in phrases, now literary) The position or function (of someone または something), as taken on by a successor. [from 15^thc.]
   • 1817 December​, [Jane Austen], Persuasion; published in Northanger Abbey: And Persuasion. […], volume (please specify |volume=III または IV), London: John Murray, […], 1818, OCLC 318384910:

     She was so wretched and so vehement, complained so much of injustice in being expected to go away instead of Anne; Anne, who was nothing to Louisa, while she was her sister, and had the best right to stay in Henrietta's stead!

   • 1961, Muriel Saint Clare Byrne, Elizabethan Life in Town and Country, page 285:

     His nurse had told him all about changelings, and how the little people would always try to steal a beautiful human child out of its cradle and put in its stead one of their own ailing, puking brats […]

   • 2011, "Kin selection", The Economist, 31 March:

     Had Daniel Ortega not got himself illegally on to this year’s ballot to seek a third term, his wife might have run in his stead.

7. (figuratively) An emotional or circumstantial "place" having specified advantages, qualities etc. (now only in phrases). [from 15^thc.]
   • 2010, Dan van der Vat, The Guardian, 19 September:

     Though small and delicate-looking, she gave an impression of intense earnestness and latent toughness, qualities that stood her in good stead when she dared to challenge the most intrusive communist society in eastern Europe.

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動詞

stead (三人称単数 現在形 steads, 現在分詞 steading, 過去形および過去分詞形 steaded)

1. (obsolete) To help, support, benefit or assist; to be helpful.
   • c. 1596–1598, William Shakespeare, “The Merchant of Venice”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, OCLC 606515358, [Act I, scene iii]:

     May you stead me? will you pleasure me? shall I know your answer?

   • c. 1603–1604, William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Othello, the Moore of Venice”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, OCLC 606515358, [Act I, scene iii]:

     I could never better stead thee than now. […]

   • 1610–1611, William Shakespeare, “The Tempest”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, OCLC 606515358, [Act I, scene ii]:

     Some food we had and some fresh water that / A noble Neapolitan, Gonzalo, / Out of his charity,—who being then appointed / Master of this design,—did give us, with / Rich garments, linens, stuffs, and necessaries, / Which since have steaded much: […]

2. (obsolete) To fill the stead or place of something.

派生語

• bestead

語源 2

Clipping of steady.

名詞

stead (複数形 steads)

1. (Singapore, colloquial) One's partner in a romantic relationship.
   • 1997 May 27, Ordinary People, soc.culture.singapore, Usenet‎^[1]:

     C'mon lah!! Wake up.. Y R U stupid girls so CHEAP!! Imagine a baby making out with an adult! Want to have stead,.. Go find 1 16yr old rich kid lah!! At for let those men take advantage!! Remember Men CANNOT be Trusted!! Boys maybe can.

   • 1998 April 17, L.Angel, soc.culture.singapore, Usenet‎^[2]:

     I prefer to know a guy better as a friend first before even considering him as a potential stead.

   • 1999 February 13, L.Angel, soc.culture.singapore, Usenet‎^[3]:

     One of the best dates I had was with his person who did attempt to impress me with expensive gifts or flowers. My date did asked though but I said no because for somebody who's not my stead and I dun feel there was a need to.

   • 2004 January 30, Fann Low, soc.culture.singapore, Usenet‎^[4]:

     after 2 week or so I decide to tell her I like her and asked her to be my stead. But she tell me she had another guy. So we remain as friend.