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  • 21stead|i|ness — «STEHD ee nihs», noun. steady character, quality, or condition; firmness: »It will be your duty…to set an example of discipline and perfect steadiness under fire (Horatio H. Kitchener) …

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  • 22stead|y-go|ing — «STEHD ee GOH ihng», adjective. steady in action, habits, or purpose …

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  • 23stead|y-stat|er — «STEHD ee STAY tuhr», noun. a supporter of the steady state theory …

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  • 24stead — bed·stead; door·stead; home·stead·er; in·stead; mar·ket·stead; noon·stead; on·stead; plum·stead; ran·stead; road·stead; room·stead; stead·fast·ly; stead·fast·ness; stead·i·ly; stead·i·ment; stead·i·ness; stead·ing; stead·ite; stead; thing·stead;… …

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  • 25Stead, Christina — ▪ Australian author in full  Christina Ellen Stead  born July 17, 1902, Rockdale, Sydney, Australia died March 31, 1983, Sydney       Australian novelist known for her political insights and firmly controlled but highly individual style.… …

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  • 26Stead, William Thomas — ▪ British journalist born , July 5, 1849, Embleton, Northumberland, Eng. died April 15, 1912, at sea, North Atlantic  British journalist, editor, and publisher who founded the noted periodical Review of Reviews (1890).       Stead was educated at …

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  • 27stead — [[t]ste̱d[/t]] 1) PHRASE: PHR after v If you do something in someone s stead, you replace them and do it instead of them. [FORMAL] We hope you will consent to act in his stead... My grandmother and aunt will be there in my parents stead. 2)… …

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  • 28Stead, C.K. — ▪ New Zealander author in full  Christian Karlson Stead  born Oct. 17, 1932, Auckland, N.Z.       New Zealand poet and novelist who gained an international reputation as a critic with The New Poetic: Yeats to Eliot (1964), which became a standard …

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  • 29Stead — This interesting name with spellings of Stead, Steed, Steade and Stede, has two distinct possible origins, both Olde English. The first is a locational surname from a place in the West Riding of Yorkshire called Stead . This was named from the… …

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  • 30stead — /sted/, n. 1. the place of a person or thing as occupied by a successor or substitute: The nephew of the queen came in her stead. 2. Obs. a place or locality. 3. stand in good stead, to be useful to, esp. in a critical situation: Your experience… …

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