stead
stead [stead steads] BrE [sted] NAmE [sted] noun Idioms: ↑in somebody's stead ▪ ↑stand somebody in good stead Word Origin: Old English stede ‘place’, of Germanic origin; related to Dutch stad ‘town’, German Statt ‘place’, Stadt ‘town’, from an Indo-European root shared by the verb ↑stand.
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