Definitions for steading

steading stead·ing

Spelling: [sted-ing]
IPA: /ˈstɛd ɪŋ/

Steading is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 10 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 12 points.

You can make 475 anagrams from letters in steading (adeginst).

Definitions for steading

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 steading

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

Examples for steading

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Word Value for steading
Scrable

10

Words with friends

12

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