(obsolete) To help, support, benefit or assist; to be helpful. / (obsolete) To fill the stead or place of something.

(Singapore, colloquial) One's partner in a romantic relationship.

(obsolete) A place, or spot, in general. / (obsolete) A place where a person normally rests; a seat. / (obsolete) An inhabited place; a settlement, city, town etc.

plural of stead

present participle of stead

A farmhouse and outer buildings such as barns, stables, cattle-sheds, etc.; a farmstead; a homestead, an onstead, an estate.

Third-person singular simple present indicative form of stead

simple past tense and past participle of stead

plural of steading

A surname.