Instead
/ɪnˈstɛd/noun
In place of something or as a substitute.
Did you know?‘Instead’ comes from a collapsed phrase, not a single ancient root, so its power is in substitution itself: one thing displaced by another, word for word.
Etymological Timeline
Old English
OE
on stede
“in the place; on the spot”
Middle English
ME
in stede
“in place of; instead of”
15th Century
English
instead
“as a substitute or replacement”
Modern English
English
instead
“in place of something else”