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instead

adv
/ɪnˈstɛd/

Etymology

From in + stead, from Middle English ine (“in”) + stede (“stead”). Related to German statt.

  1. derived from ine

Definitions

  1. In the place of something (usually mentioned earlier)

    In the place of something (usually mentioned earlier); as a substitute or alternative.

    • I was going to go shopping, but I went dancing instead.
    • ‘It's rather like a beautiful Inverness cloak one has inherited. Much too good to hide away, so one wears it instead of an overcoat and pretends it's an amusing new fashion.’

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at instead. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

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A definitional loop anchored at instead. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

10 hops · closes at instead

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA