[stɛd], (Noun)

Definitions:
- the place or role that someone or something should have or fill (used in referring to a substitute)
(e.g: you wish to have him superseded and to be appointed in his stead)


Phrases:
- stand someone in good stead

Origin:
Old English stede ‘place’, of Germanic origin; related to Dutch stad ‘town’, German Statt ‘place’, Stadt ‘town’, from an Indo-European root shared by the verb stand