Instead

Etymology
from ine stede Middle English, A loan-translation of in lieu of ,form in loco.

Adverb
instead


 * 1) In the place of something (usually mentioned earlier); as a substitute or alternative
 * I was going to go shopping, but I went dancing instead.

Synonyms

 * in lieu of

Translations

 * Arabic: بدلا من
 * Bosnian:
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:, 抵作
 * Croatian:, u zamjenu
 * Dutch:
 * Esperanto:
 * Finnish: asemasta, jonkun tilalle, sen sijaan
 * French:
 * German: ,
 * Hungarian:
 * Hungarian:
 * Hungarian:


 * Italian: ,
 * Japanese: 代わり
 * Korean: 대신에 (daesine)
 * Norwegian: isteden, isteden for, i stedet, i stedet for
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese: ,
 * Romanian: în loc de
 * Russian: (+ genitive case)
 * Slovene: namesto
 * Spanish: en vez de
 * Swedish:
 * Thai: (taen)
 * Turkish: yerine
 * Vietnamese:

Derived terms

 * instead of

Anagrams

 * detains
 * sainted
 * stained

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