steading
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steading
Where it comes from
From Middle English steding (“place, farm”), from Middle English stede (“estate, property, holdings”), from Old English stede (“locality, place, site, position, station”).
noun steadings
- 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.
verb
- present participle and gerund of stead
Talk about this word "steading." Wiktionary, via Micwyn, micwyn.com/word/steading. Accessed 6 Nov. 2026. steading. (n.d.). In Wiktionary, via Micwyn. Retrieved November 6, 2026, from https://micwyn.com/word/steading "steading." Wiktionary, via Micwyn. Accessed November 6, 2026. https://micwyn.com/word/steading.Cite this
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title = {steading},
howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
year = {2026},
url = {https://micwyn.com/word/steading},
urldate = {2026-11-06}
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