English Explanatory Dictionary

steading

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. A farmhouse and outer buildings such as barns, stables, cattle-sheds, etc.; a farmstead; a homestead, an onstead, an estate.
verb
  1. present participle and gerund of stead

Word forms

steading steadings

Etymology

From Middle English steding (“place, farm”), from Middle English stede (“estate, property, holdings”), from Old English stede (“locality, place, site, position, station”).

Derived words

farmsteading
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