steed
pronunciation
How to pronounce steed in British English:
UK [stiːd]
How to pronounce steed in American English:
US [stiːd]
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- Noun:
- (literary) a spirited horse for state or war
Word Origin
- steed
- steed: see stud
- steed (n.)
- Old English steda "stallion, stud horse," from Proto-Germanic *stodjon (source also of Old Norse stoð), from the same Germanic root as Old English stod (see stud (n.2)). In Middle English, "a great horse" (as distinguished from a palfrey), "a spirited war horse." Obsolete from 16c. except in poetic, rhetorical, or jocular language.
Example
- 1. Oh then saddle for me my milk-white steed .
- 2. The steed that bears a human rider enjoys constant supervision and the benefit of a self-balancing load .
- 3. Go bridle me , my milk white steed .
- 4. Steed always maintained that the story was substantially true .
- 5. Rain pelted across his leathery skin as two servants emerged from the crowd of men bearing a brown steed .