Etymology

steading

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Today it means: A farmhouse and outer buildings such as barns, stables, cattle-sheds, etc.; a farmstead; a homestead, an onstead, an estate. Full definition →

Middle English steding ← Old English stede
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The story

  1. Old English · derived fromstede“locality, place, site, position, station”
  2. Middle English · inherited fromsteding“place, farm”
  3. English todaysteading

From Middle English steding (“place, farm”), from Middle English stede (“estate, property, holdings”), from Old English stede (“locality, place, site, position, station”).

Words from the same roots

Old Englishstede all →

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