Room vs Stead - What's the difference?
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(dialectal, or, obsolete) Far; at a distance; wide in space or extent.
(nautical) Off from the wind.
* 1526 , (William Tyndale), trans. Bible , (w) I:
* 1748 , (Samuel Richardson), (Clarissa) :
(label) Space for'' something, or ''to carry out an activity.
* 2010 , Jonathan Franklin, The Guardian , 27 Aug 2010:
(label) A particular portion of space.
* (rfdate) (Thomas Overbury) (c.1581-1613)
* (rfdate) Bible, (w) xiv. 8
* (rfdate) (Joseph Addison) (1672-1719)
* 2010 , Roger Bootle, The Telegraph , 12 Sep 2010:
(label) A space between the timbers of a ship's frame.
(label) A separate part of a building, enclosed by walls, a floor and a ceiling.
* 1813 , (Jane Austen), (Pride and Prejudice) :
* , chapter=10
, title= (label) With possessive pronoun: one's bedroom.
* , chapter=6
, title= * {{quote-book, year=1963, author=(Margery Allingham), title=(The China Governess)
, chapter=20 (label) A set of rooms inhabited by someone; one's lodgings.
(label) An area for working in a coal mine. (jump)
(label) A portion of a cave that is wider than a passage. (jump)
Place or position in society; office; rank; post, sometimes when vacated by its former occupant.
* (rfdate) Bible, (w) ii. 22
* (rfdate) (William Tyndale) (1494-1536)
* (rfdate) (William Shakespeare) (1564-1616)
To reside, especially as a boarder or tenant.
(label) A place, or spot, in general.
*1590 , Edmund Spenser, The Faery Queene , II:
*:For he ne wonneth in one certaine stead , / But restlesse walketh all the world around.
(label) A place where a person normally rests; a seat.
*1633 , P. Fletcher, Purple Island :
*:There now the hart, fearlesse of greyhound, feeds, / And loving pelican in safety breeds; / There shrieking satyres fill the people's emptie steads .
(label) A specific place or point on a body or other surface.
*, Bk.VII:
*:Thus they fought two houres& in many stedys they were wounded.
(label) An inhabited place; a settlement, city, town etc.
(label) An estate, a property with its grounds; a farm.
*1889 , H. Rider Haggard, Allan's Wife :
*:But of course I could not do this by myself, so I took a Hottentot—a very clever man when he was not drunk—who lived on the stead , into my confidence.
(label) The frame on which a bed is laid; a bedstead.
*(John Dryden) (1631-1700)
*:The genial bed / Sallow the feet, the borders, and the stead .
*1818 , Jane Austen, Persuasion :
*:She was so wretched and so vehement, complained so much of injustice in being expected to go away instead of Anne; Anne, who was nothing to Louisa, while she was her sister, and had the best right to stay in Henrietta's stead !
*2011 , "Kin selection", The Economist , 31 March:
*:Had Daniel Ortega not got himself illegally on to this year’s ballot to seek a third term, his wife might have run in his stead .
Figuratively, an emotional or circumstantial "place" having specified advantages, qualities etc. (now only in phrases).
*2010 , Dan van der Vat, The Guardian , 19 September:
*:Though small and delicate-looking, she gave an impression of intense earnestness and latent toughness, qualities that stood her in good stead when she dared to challenge the most intrusive communist society in eastern Europe.
To help; to support; to benefit; to assist.
* 1610 , , act 1 scene 2
To fill place of.
Room is a related term of stead.
As nouns the difference between room and stead
is that room is joy, happiness while stead is (label) a place, or spot, in general.As a verb stead is
to help; to support; to benefit; to assist.room
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) roum, rom, rum, from (etyl) .Etymology 2
From (etyl) rome, from (etyl) .Adverb
(en adverb)Etymology 3
From (etyl) roum, from (etyl) through Indo-European. More at (l). Apparently an exception to the , which otherwise would have produced the pronunciation , but /a?/ does not occur before noncoronal consonants in Modern English.Noun
(en noun)- Thou lorde whiche knowest the hertes of all men, shewe whether thou hast chosen of these two, that the one maye take the roume of this ministracion, and apostleshippe from the which Judas by transgression fell, that he myght goo to his awne place.
- Nor shalt thou give me room to doubt whether it be necessity or love, that inspires this condescending impulse.
- He explains they have enough room to stand and lie down, points out the "little cup to brush our teeth", and the place where they pray.
- If he have but twelve pence in his purse, he will give it for the best room in a playhouse.
- When thou art bidden of any man to a wedding, sit not down in the highest room .
- There was no prince in the empire who had room for such an alliance.
- There are major disagreements within the Coalition and politicians always want to retain room for manoeuvre.
- Miss Bingley made no answer, and soon afterwards she got up and walked about the room .
The Mirror and the Lamp, passage=He looked round the poor room', at the distempered walls, and the bad engravings in meretricious frames, the crinkly paper and wax flowers on the chiffonier; and he thought of a '''room''' like Father Bryan's, with panelling, with cut glass, with tulips in silver pots, such a ' room as he had hoped to have for his own.}}
Mr. Pratt's Patients, passage=She was so mad she wouldn't speak to me for quite a spell, but at last I coaxed her into going up to Miss Emmeline's room and fetching down a tintype of the missing Deacon man.}}
citation, passage=‘No. I only opened the door a foot and put my head in. The street lamps shine into that room . I could see him. He was all right. Sleeping like a great grampus. Poor, poor chap.’}}
- When he heard that Archelaus did reign in Judea in the room of his father Herod.
- Neither that I look for a higher room in heaven.
- Let Bianca take her sister's room .
Quotations
* (English Citations of "room")Synonyms
* (jump) elbow room, legroom, space * (jump) chamber, quarters * (jump) chamber * See alsoDerived terms
* art room * AV room * backroom * ballroom * bathroom * bedroom * billiards room * blue room * boardroom * boiler room * box-room * break room * changing room * chat room * classroom * clean my room * cold room * common room * computer room * control room * copy room * courtroom * cutting room * darkroom * delivery room * dining room * discussion room * display room * dormroom * dressing room * elbow room * elephant in the room * embalming room * emergency room * engine room * examination room * fitting room * Florida room * front room * game room * get a room * giftwrapping room * green room * guest room * headroom * inner room * in the room * lamp room * laundry room * legroom * living room * locker room * lunchroom * map room * meditation room * meeting room * mud room * music room * need a room * newsroom * no room at the inn * operating room * padded room * panic room * plant room * play room * pool room * powder room * prep room * press room * private room * pump room * reading room * ready room * recording room * reptile room * romper room * room and board * room at the top * room for abuse * room for apology * room for dessert * room for error * room for improvement * room service * room to breathe * room to grow * room to roam * room with a view * roommate * roomie * roomy * rubber room * rumpus room * save room * school room * science room * screening room * sewing room * showroom * sitting room * sound room * spare room * standing room only * steam room * storeroom * strong room * study room * sunroom * the other room * the upper room * upstairs room * viewing room * waiting room * war room * washroom * weightroom * wiggle room * work the room * workroomVerb
- Doctor Watson roomed with Sherlock Holmes at Baker Street.
Derived terms
* roomer * room together * roomyStatistics
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* * 1000 English basic words ----stead
English
Noun
(en noun)Derived terms
* bedstead * homestead * in good stead * in one's stead * instead * sunstead * worksteadVerb
(en verb)- Some food we had and some fresh water that / A noble Neapolitan, Gonzalo, / Out of his charity,—who being then appointed / Master of this design,—did give us, with / Rich garments, linens, stuffs, and necessaries, / Which since have steaded much: [...]