Definitions for steadings

steadings stead·ing

Spelling: [sted-ing]
IPA: /ˈstɛd ɪŋ/

Steadings is a 9 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 10 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 12 points.

You can make 588 anagrams from letters in steadings (adeginsst).

Definitions for steadings

noun

  1. a farm, especially its buildings.
  2. the place of a person or thing as occupied by a successor or substitute:
  3. Obsolete. a place or locality.

Idioms

  1. stand in good stead, to be useful to, especially in a critical situation:

verb (used with object)

  1. to be of service, advantage, or avail to.

Origin of steadings

1425-75; late Middle English (north and Scots); see stead, -ing1

Examples for steadings

On t' other side frae our steading were a cove that fowks called Janet's Cove.

The country was of old so cursed by war, that a steading in the fields was a lost affair.

The steading is large for the size of the farm, but every steading ought to be made conformable to the farm by the landlord.

The house and buildings are only one story high, white, and altogether a genuine Scotch steading.

He will rue it that ever he begot a son who will lose him his acres and his steading.

To live in a steading somewhere, equipped with a reliable well, vegetable patch, fireplace, maybe a wood-fired Aga.

Save when the English marauders were abroad, all was quietness by hamlet and steading.

Her face is wrinkled, and her dim eyes are peering down the track which leads from the steading to the pasture.

After this Cormac went about the steading to look for Steingerd.

A reminder of the days when the manorial lord was a king in a small way is supplied by the steading Stone.

Word Value for steadings
Scrable

10

Words with friends

12

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