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steading

steading noun: a farmhouse and outer buildings such as barns, stables, cattle-sheds, etc.; a farmstead; a homestead, an onstead, an estate. Also the present participle and gerund of stead.

Noun

steading (plural steadings)

  1. A farmhouse and outer buildings such as barns, stables, cattle-sheds, etc.; a farmstead; a homestead, an onstead, an estate.
    • She never seemed to want for siller; the house was as bright as a new preen, the yaird better delved than the manse garden; and there was routh of fowls and doos about the small steading, forbye a wheen sheep and milk-kye in the fields.1902, John Buchan, The Outgoing of the Tide
    • They said nothing further, but tramped on in the growing darkness, past farm steadings, into the little village, through the silent churchyard where generations of the Pallisers lay, and up the beech avenue that led to Northrop Hall.1907 January, Harold Bindloss, chapter 1, in The Dust of Conflict, 1st Canadian edition, Toronto, Ont.: McLeod & Allen, →OCLC

Also used as

steading is also the present participle and gerund of stead.

Forms of steading

pluralsteadings

Origin of steading

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

Words formed from steading

Questions about steading

What does steading mean?
Steading means a farmhouse and outer buildings such as barns, stables, cattle-sheds, etc.; a farmstead; a homestead, an onstead, an estate.
What part of speech is steading?
Steading is a noun.
What is the plural of steading?
The plural of steading is steadings.

Words near steading in the dictionary

  1. steadily
  2. steadiment
  3. steadiments
  4. steadiness
  5. steadinesses
  6. steading
  7. steadings
  8. Steadman
  9. Steadmans
  10. steads
  11. steady

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