Noun: sted
Sample Sentences
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1500, Le Bone Florence of Rome
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They dud wyth hym as wyth þe dedd; They beryed hym in a ryall stedd.
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And false Duessa in her sted had borne [1590, Edmund Spenser, “(please specify the book)”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:]
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But in the gloomy court was rais'd a bed, / Stuff'd with black plumes, and on an ebon sted [1927, Hélène Adeline Guerber, Myths of Greece and Rome, Library of Alexandria, →ISBN:]
Nouns inflected like sted
soldier's woundwort,
Nicosian,
whopper,
greypate,
tactile sign language,
chronotrope,
Rosie Lee,
dissentient,
photoinactivator,
sulphonediimine,
coastal waterfall,
residuary devise,
bituminization,
nitrosonaphthol,
smṛiti,
geosphere,
backscreen,
mensuralist,
flocculate,
flocculant, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
From Middle English sted, from Old English stede (“place, spot, locality”). See: Old English Nouns '
stede'.