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stead Noun 1. stand someone in good stead to be useful to someone in the future 2. Rare the function or position that should be taken by another: I cannot let you rule in my stead [Old English stede]
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Translations stead [stɛd] n in sb's stead → an jds Stelle; to stand sb in good stead → jdm zugute- or zustattenkommen How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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| Antigone, daughter of Oedipus, the late king of Thebes, in defiance of Creon who rules in his stead, resolves to bury her brother Polyneices, slain in his attack on Thebes. Suppose Sir Walter, in- stead of putting the conversations into the mouths of his characters, had allowed the characters to speak for themselves? And then Chance carried a little leather ball beneath the window where the old man stood; and as the child ran, laughing, to recover it, De Vac's eyes fell upon him, and his former plan for revenge melted as the fog before the noonday sun; and in its stead there opened to him the whole hideous plot of fearsome vengeance as clearly as it were writ upon the leaves of a great book that had been thrown wide before him. |
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