steading
- noun
- /ˈstɛdɪŋ/
- UK
- I had heard tell of them from a falconer who once came to our steading.
- hills above the steading
- land above the steading
- steading home
Examples
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Once a trader had come to our steading from that land, bringing honey, spices, and vibrant-hued silks.
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The family worked hard to maintain their steading, which included a barn and several fields.
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I put away the thought and turned to survey this steading.
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Before, she had been south of Re, near my father's steading.
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And winter had come earlier here, for snow cloaked the steading and fields.
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My first suitor asked me to show him the hills above the steading.
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Walking through the steading with Skava, I marked a change in the way folk regarded me.
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"A maid of your station does not go flitting about the steading like a scullery girl."
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Never since my grandfather's youth had a king's knarr put in at our steading.
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Rath and his mother had escaped to the king's steading, where his mother became a favorite of the king's older sister, Gudjen.
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Synonyms
A small farm in Scotland with a house and land
The main group of buildings on a farm and the land around them
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Steading comes from the old word stead meaning 'place' and the ending -ing that shows 'a place'. That's why in Scotland a steading is the farm 'place' — the houses and farm buildings together, like a homestead.