sted

plural steds · alternative stedd

1. obsoleteObsolete form of stead.

   1500, Le Bone Florence of Rome They dud wyth hym as wyth þe dedd; They beryed hym in a ryall stedd.

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   And false Duessa in her sted had borne

   1590, Edmund Spenser, “(please specify the book)”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC

   But in the gloomy court was rais'd a bed, / Stuff'd with black plumes, and on an ebon sted

   1927, Hélène Adeline Guerber, Myths of Greece and Rome, Library of Alexandria, →ISBN

alternative stedd

1. abbreviationnot comparableslangjournalismshort for instead of

   (This version CORRECTS Corrects title of movie to ‘Echoes of the Rainbow’ sted ‘Echoes of a Rainbow.’)

   2010 February 22, “Hong Kong rejoices over Berlin film prize”, in Long Island Press, retrieved 25 Jul 2012

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   Eds: CORRECTS name of city to 'Pass Christian' sted 'Port'. Moving on general news and financial services. AP Video.

   2010 May 10, Vicki Smith, Holbrook Mohr, “Gulf Oil Spill: Unemployed Fishermen Struggling To Get By”, in Huffington Post, retrieved 25 Jul 2012

plural STEDs

1. abbreviationacronymAcronym of stimulated emission depletion microscope.

1. participlepastsimple past and past participle of ST