"instead" meaning in English

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Adverb

IPA: /ɪnˈstɛd/ Audio: en-us-instead.ogg
enPR: ĭn-stěd' Rhymes: -ɛd Etymology: From in + stead, from Middle English ine (“in”) + stede (“stead”). Related to German statt. Etymology templates: {{compound|en|in|stead}} in + stead, {{der|en|enm|ine||in}} Middle English ine (“in”), {{cog|de|statt}} German statt Head templates: {{en-adv|-}} instead (not comparable)
  1. In the place of something (usually mentioned earlier); as a substitute or alternative. Tags: not-comparable Synonyms: in lieu, enstead, in steed, in stead [obsolete] Derived forms: instead of Translations (in the place of (it)): në vend të (Albanian), në vend që (Albanian), بَدَلاً مِن (badalan min) (Arabic), ܚܠܦ (ħlap) [Syriac] (Aramaic), -অৰ সলনি (-or xoloni) (Assamese), আনহাতে (anhate) (Assamese), урынына (urınına) (Bashkir), পরিবর্তে (poriborte) (Bengali), kentoc'h (Breton), вме́сто (vmésto) (Bulgarian), 代替 (dàitì) (Chinese Mandarin), 抵作 (dǐzuò) (Chinese Mandarin), ⲁⲛⲧⲓ (anti) (Coptic), namísto (Czech), místo toho (Czech), i stedet (Danish), i stedet for (Danish), in plaats daarvan (Dutch), anstataŭe (Esperanto), asemasta (Finnish), sen sijaan (Finnish), sen sijasta (Finnish), tilalle (Finnish), à la place (French), au lieu de (French), stattdessen (German), anstatt (German), αντί (antí) (Greek), במקום (Hebrew), के बजाय (ke bajāy) (Hindi), helyette (Hungarian), inkább (Hungarian), í staðinn (Icelandic), í stað þess (Icelandic), malah (Indonesian), ina ionad (Irish), ina áit (Irish), in luogo di (Italian), invece (Italian), al posto di (Italian), ...の代わりに (...no kawari-ni) (Japanese), 대신에 (daesine) (Korean), наместо (namesto) (Macedonian), место (mesto) (Macedonian), isteden (Norwegian), i staden (Norwegian), i stedet (Norwegian), zamiast (Polish), em vez de (Portuguese), ao invés de (Portuguese), antes (Portuguese), în loc de (Romanian), вме́сто (vmésto) [with-genitive] (Russian), место [Cyrillic] (Serbo-Croatian), misto [Cyrillic] (Serbo-Croatian), мјесто [Cyrillic] (Serbo-Croatian), уместо [Cyrillic] (Serbo-Croatian), умјесто [Cyrillic] (Serbo-Croatian), mesto [Roman] (Serbo-Croatian), misto [Roman] (Serbo-Croatian), mjesto [Roman] (Serbo-Croatian), umesto [Roman] (Serbo-Croatian), umjesto [Roman] (Serbo-Croatian), u zamjenu [Roman] (Serbo-Croatian), mmeci (Sicilian), scanciu (Sicilian), namésto (Slovene), en vez de (Spanish), en lugar de (Spanish), istället (Swedish), แทน (taen) (Thai), yerine (Turkish), нато́мість (natómistʹ) (Ukrainian), invése (Venetian), invéze (Venetian), inveẑe (Venetian), thay vì (Vietnamese)
    Sense id: en-instead-en-adv-83BagJSu Categories (other): Assamese terms with redundant transliterations, Bashkir terms with redundant script codes, Bulgarian terms with redundant script codes, Classical Syriac terms with redundant script codes, English entries with incorrect language header, Entries with translation boxes, Hebrew terms with redundant script codes, Macedonian terms with redundant script codes, Mandarin terms with redundant transliterations, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries, Terms with Albanian translations, Terms with Arabic translations, Terms with Assamese translations, Terms with Bashkir translations, Terms with Bengali translations, Terms with Breton translations, Terms with Bulgarian translations, Terms with Classical Syriac translations, Terms with Coptic translations, Terms with Czech translations, Terms with Danish translations, Terms with Dutch translations, Terms with Esperanto translations, Terms with Finnish translations, Terms with French translations, Terms with German translations, Terms with Greek translations, Terms with Hebrew translations, Terms with Hindi translations, Terms with Hungarian translations, Terms with Icelandic translations, Terms with Indonesian translations, Terms with Irish translations, Terms with Italian translations, Terms with Japanese translations, Terms with Korean translations, Terms with Macedonian translations, Terms with Mandarin translations, Terms with Norwegian translations, Terms with Polish translations, Terms with Portuguese translations, Terms with Romanian translations, Terms with Russian translations, Terms with Serbo-Croatian translations, Terms with Sicilian translations, Terms with Slovene translations, Terms with Spanish translations, Terms with Swedish translations, Terms with Thai translations, Terms with Turkish translations, Terms with Ukrainian translations, Terms with Venetian translations, Terms with Vietnamese translations

Alternative forms

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          "text": "‘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.’",
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          "ref": "2013 June 28, Joris Luyendijk, “Our banks are out of control”, in The Guardian Weekly, volume 189, number 3, page 21:",
          "text": "Seeing the British establishment struggle with the financial sector is like watching an alcoholic […]. Until 2008 there was denial over what finance had become. […] But the scandals kept coming, […]. A broad section of the political class now recognises the need for change but remains unable to see the necessity of a fundamental overhaul. Instead it offers fixes and patches.",
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        {
          "code": "sq",
          "lang": "Albanian",
          "sense": "in the place of (it)",
          "word": "në vend të"
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          "code": "sq",
          "lang": "Albanian",
          "sense": "in the place of (it)",
          "word": "në vend që"
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          "code": "ar",
          "lang": "Arabic",
          "roman": "badalan min",
          "sense": "in the place of (it)",
          "word": "بَدَلاً مِن"
        },
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          "code": "syc",
          "lang": "Aramaic",
          "roman": "ħlap",
          "sense": "in the place of (it)",
          "tags": [
            "Syriac"
          ],
          "word": "ܚܠܦ"
        },
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          "code": "as",
          "lang": "Assamese",
          "roman": "-or xoloni",
          "sense": "in the place of (it)",
          "word": "-অৰ সলনি"
        },
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          "code": "as",
          "lang": "Assamese",
          "roman": "anhate",
          "sense": "in the place of (it)",
          "word": "আনহাতে"
        },
        {
          "code": "ba",
          "lang": "Bashkir",
          "roman": "urınına",
          "sense": "in the place of (it)",
          "word": "урынына"
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        {
          "code": "bn",
          "lang": "Bengali",
          "roman": "poriborte",
          "sense": "in the place of (it)",
          "word": "পরিবর্তে"
        },
        {
          "code": "br",
          "lang": "Breton",
          "sense": "in the place of (it)",
          "word": "kentoc'h"
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        {
          "code": "bg",
          "lang": "Bulgarian",
          "roman": "vmésto",
          "sense": "in the place of (it)",
          "word": "вме́сто"
        },
        {
          "code": "cmn",
          "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
          "roman": "dàitì",
          "sense": "in the place of (it)",
          "word": "代替"
        },
        {
          "code": "cmn",
          "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
          "roman": "dǐzuò",
          "sense": "in the place of (it)",
          "word": "抵作"
        },
        {
          "code": "cop",
          "lang": "Coptic",
          "roman": "anti",
          "sense": "in the place of (it)",
          "word": "ⲁⲛⲧⲓ"
        },
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          "code": "cs",
          "lang": "Czech",
          "sense": "in the place of (it)",
          "word": "namísto"
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          "code": "cs",
          "lang": "Czech",
          "sense": "in the place of (it)",
          "word": "místo toho"
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          "code": "da",
          "lang": "Danish",
          "sense": "in the place of (it)",
          "word": "i stedet"
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          "code": "da",
          "lang": "Danish",
          "sense": "in the place of (it)",
          "word": "i stedet for"
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          "lang": "Dutch",
          "sense": "in the place of (it)",
          "word": "in plaats daarvan"
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          "lang": "Esperanto",
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          "word": "anstataŭe"
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          "code": "fi",
          "lang": "Finnish",
          "sense": "in the place of (it)",
          "word": "asemasta"
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          "code": "fi",
          "lang": "Finnish",
          "sense": "in the place of (it)",
          "word": "sen sijaan"
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          "code": "fi",
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          "sense": "in the place of (it)",
          "word": "sen sijasta"
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          "code": "fi",
          "lang": "Finnish",
          "sense": "in the place of (it)",
          "word": "tilalle"
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          "lang": "French",
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          "word": "במקום"
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          "code": "hu",
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          "lang": "Icelandic",
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          "code": "ga",
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          "code": "ga",
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          "code": "it",
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          "code": "it",
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          "word": "al posto di"
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          "word": "...の代わりに"
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          "code": "ko",
          "lang": "Korean",
          "roman": "daesine",
          "sense": "in the place of (it)",
          "word": "대신에"
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          "code": "mk",
          "lang": "Macedonian",
          "roman": "namesto",
          "sense": "in the place of (it)",
          "word": "наместо"
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          "code": "no",
          "lang": "Norwegian",
          "sense": "in the place of (it)",
          "word": "isteden"
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          "code": "no",
          "lang": "Norwegian",
          "sense": "in the place of (it)",
          "word": "i staden"
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          "code": "no",
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          "sense": "in the place of (it)",
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          "code": "pl",
          "lang": "Polish",
          "sense": "in the place of (it)",
          "word": "zamiast"
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          "code": "pt",
          "lang": "Portuguese",
          "sense": "in the place of (it)",
          "word": "em vez de"
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        {
          "code": "pt",
          "lang": "Portuguese",
          "sense": "in the place of (it)",
          "word": "ao invés de"
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          "code": "pt",
          "lang": "Portuguese",
          "sense": "in the place of (it)",
          "word": "antes"
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        {
          "code": "ro",
          "lang": "Romanian",
          "sense": "in the place of (it)",
          "word": "în loc de"
        },
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          "code": "ru",
          "lang": "Russian",
          "roman": "vmésto",
          "sense": "in the place of (it)",
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          "word": "вме́сто"
        },
        {
          "code": "sh",
          "lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
          "sense": "in the place of (it)",
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        {
          "code": "sh",
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          "tags": [
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        {
          "code": "sh",
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          "sense": "in the place of (it)",
          "tags": [
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          ],
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        },
        {
          "code": "sh",
          "lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
          "sense": "in the place of (it)",
          "tags": [
            "Cyrillic"
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        {
          "code": "sh",
          "lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
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          "tags": [
            "Cyrillic"
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        {
          "code": "sh",
          "lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
          "sense": "in the place of (it)",
          "tags": [
            "Roman"
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        },
        {
          "code": "sh",
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            "Roman"
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        },
        {
          "code": "sh",
          "lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
          "sense": "in the place of (it)",
          "tags": [
            "Roman"
          ],
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        },
        {
          "code": "sh",
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          "tags": [
            "Roman"
          ],
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        },
        {
          "code": "sh",
          "lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
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          "tags": [
            "Roman"
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        },
        {
          "code": "sh",
          "lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
          "sense": "in the place of (it)",
          "tags": [
            "Roman"
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          "word": "u zamjenu"
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        {
          "code": "scn",
          "lang": "Sicilian",
          "sense": "in the place of (it)",
          "word": "mmeci"
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        {
          "code": "scn",
          "lang": "Sicilian",
          "sense": "in the place of (it)",
          "word": "scanciu"
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        {
          "code": "sl",
          "lang": "Slovene",
          "sense": "in the place of (it)",
          "word": "namésto"
        },
        {
          "code": "es",
          "lang": "Spanish",
          "sense": "in the place of (it)",
          "word": "en vez de"
        },
        {
          "code": "es",
          "lang": "Spanish",
          "sense": "in the place of (it)",
          "word": "en lugar de"
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          "code": "sv",
          "lang": "Swedish",
          "sense": "in the place of (it)",
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          "lang": "Thai",
          "roman": "taen",
          "sense": "in the place of (it)",
          "word": "แทน"
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          "code": "tr",
          "lang": "Turkish",
          "sense": "in the place of (it)",
          "word": "yerine"
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          "code": "uk",
          "lang": "Ukrainian",
          "roman": "natómistʹ",
          "sense": "in the place of (it)",
          "word": "нато́мість"
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          "code": "vec",
          "lang": "Venetian",
          "sense": "in the place of (it)",
          "word": "invése"
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          "code": "vec",
          "lang": "Venetian",
          "sense": "in the place of (it)",
          "word": "invéze"
        },
        {
          "code": "vec",
          "lang": "Venetian",
          "sense": "in the place of (it)",
          "word": "inveẑe"
        },
        {
          "code": "vi",
          "lang": "Vietnamese",
          "sense": "in the place of (it)",
          "word": "thay vì"
        }
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      "enpr": "ĭn-stěd'"
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      "ipa": "/ɪnˈstɛd/"
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}
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        "Bashkir terms with redundant script codes",
        "Bulgarian terms with redundant script codes",
        "Classical Syriac terms with redundant script codes",
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        "English terms with usage examples",
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        "Terms with Albanian translations",
        "Terms with Arabic translations",
        "Terms with Assamese translations",
        "Terms with Bashkir translations",
        "Terms with Bengali translations",
        "Terms with Breton translations",
        "Terms with Bulgarian translations",
        "Terms with Classical Syriac translations",
        "Terms with Coptic translations",
        "Terms with Czech translations",
        "Terms with Danish translations",
        "Terms with Dutch translations",
        "Terms with Esperanto translations",
        "Terms with Finnish translations",
        "Terms with French translations",
        "Terms with German translations",
        "Terms with Greek translations",
        "Terms with Hebrew translations",
        "Terms with Hindi translations",
        "Terms with Hungarian translations",
        "Terms with Icelandic translations",
        "Terms with Indonesian translations",
        "Terms with Irish translations",
        "Terms with Italian translations",
        "Terms with Japanese translations",
        "Terms with Korean translations",
        "Terms with Macedonian translations",
        "Terms with Mandarin translations",
        "Terms with Norwegian translations",
        "Terms with Polish translations",
        "Terms with Portuguese translations",
        "Terms with Romanian translations",
        "Terms with Russian translations",
        "Terms with Serbo-Croatian translations",
        "Terms with Sicilian translations",
        "Terms with Slovene translations",
        "Terms with Spanish translations",
        "Terms with Swedish translations",
        "Terms with Thai translations",
        "Terms with Turkish translations",
        "Terms with Ukrainian translations",
        "Terms with Venetian translations",
        "Terms with Vietnamese translations"
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          "text": "I was going to go shopping, but I went dancing instead.",
          "type": "example"
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          "ref": "1963, Margery Allingham, chapter 5, in The China Governess: A Mystery, London: Chatto & Windus, →OCLC:",
          "text": "‘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.’",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2013 June 28, Joris Luyendijk, “Our banks are out of control”, in The Guardian Weekly, volume 189, number 3, page 21:",
          "text": "Seeing the British establishment struggle with the financial sector is like watching an alcoholic […]. Until 2008 there was denial over what finance had become. […] But the scandals kept coming, […]. A broad section of the political class now recognises the need for change but remains unable to see the necessity of a fundamental overhaul. Instead it offers fixes and patches.",
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      "enpr": "ĭn-stěd'"
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    {
      "ipa": "/ɪnˈstɛd/"
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      "word": "in lieu"
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      "word": "enstead"
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      "word": "in steed"
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      "code": "sq",
      "lang": "Albanian",
      "sense": "in the place of (it)",
      "word": "në vend të"
    },
    {
      "code": "sq",
      "lang": "Albanian",
      "sense": "in the place of (it)",
      "word": "në vend që"
    },
    {
      "code": "ar",
      "lang": "Arabic",
      "roman": "badalan min",
      "sense": "in the place of (it)",
      "word": "بَدَلاً مِن"
    },
    {
      "code": "syc",
      "lang": "Aramaic",
      "roman": "ħlap",
      "sense": "in the place of (it)",
      "tags": [
        "Syriac"
      ],
      "word": "ܚܠܦ"
    },
    {
      "code": "as",
      "lang": "Assamese",
      "roman": "-or xoloni",
      "sense": "in the place of (it)",
      "word": "-অৰ সলনি"
    },
    {
      "code": "as",
      "lang": "Assamese",
      "roman": "anhate",
      "sense": "in the place of (it)",
      "word": "আনহাতে"
    },
    {
      "code": "ba",
      "lang": "Bashkir",
      "roman": "urınına",
      "sense": "in the place of (it)",
      "word": "урынына"
    },
    {
      "code": "bn",
      "lang": "Bengali",
      "roman": "poriborte",
      "sense": "in the place of (it)",
      "word": "পরিবর্তে"
    },
    {
      "code": "br",
      "lang": "Breton",
      "sense": "in the place of (it)",
      "word": "kentoc'h"
    },
    {
      "code": "bg",
      "lang": "Bulgarian",
      "roman": "vmésto",
      "sense": "in the place of (it)",
      "word": "вме́сто"
    },
    {
      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "roman": "dàitì",
      "sense": "in the place of (it)",
      "word": "代替"
    },
    {
      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "roman": "dǐzuò",
      "sense": "in the place of (it)",
      "word": "抵作"
    },
    {
      "code": "cop",
      "lang": "Coptic",
      "roman": "anti",
      "sense": "in the place of (it)",
      "word": "ⲁⲛⲧⲓ"
    },
    {
      "code": "cs",
      "lang": "Czech",
      "sense": "in the place of (it)",
      "word": "namísto"
    },
    {
      "code": "cs",
      "lang": "Czech",
      "sense": "in the place of (it)",
      "word": "místo toho"
    },
    {
      "code": "da",
      "lang": "Danish",
      "sense": "in the place of (it)",
      "word": "i stedet"
    },
    {
      "code": "da",
      "lang": "Danish",
      "sense": "in the place of (it)",
      "word": "i stedet for"
    },
    {
      "code": "nl",
      "lang": "Dutch",
      "sense": "in the place of (it)",
      "word": "in plaats daarvan"
    },
    {
      "code": "eo",
      "lang": "Esperanto",
      "sense": "in the place of (it)",
      "word": "anstataŭe"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "in the place of (it)",
      "word": "asemasta"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "in the place of (it)",
      "word": "sen sijaan"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "in the place of (it)",
      "word": "sen sijasta"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "in the place of (it)",
      "word": "tilalle"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "in the place of (it)",
      "word": "à la place"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "in the place of (it)",
      "word": "au lieu de"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "in the place of (it)",
      "word": "stattdessen"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "in the place of (it)",
      "word": "anstatt"
    },
    {
      "code": "el",
      "lang": "Greek",
      "roman": "antí",
      "sense": "in the place of (it)",
      "word": "αντί"
    },
    {
      "code": "he",
      "lang": "Hebrew",
      "sense": "in the place of (it)",
      "word": "במקום"
    },
    {
      "code": "hi",
      "lang": "Hindi",
      "roman": "ke bajāy",
      "sense": "in the place of (it)",
      "word": "के बजाय"
    },
    {
      "code": "hu",
      "lang": "Hungarian",
      "sense": "in the place of (it)",
      "word": "helyette"
    },
    {
      "code": "hu",
      "lang": "Hungarian",
      "sense": "in the place of (it)",
      "word": "inkább"
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    {
      "code": "is",
      "lang": "Icelandic",
      "sense": "in the place of (it)",
      "word": "í staðinn"
    },
    {
      "code": "is",
      "lang": "Icelandic",
      "sense": "in the place of (it)",
      "word": "í stað þess"
    },
    {
      "code": "id",
      "lang": "Indonesian",
      "sense": "in the place of (it)",
      "word": "malah"
    },
    {
      "code": "ga",
      "lang": "Irish",
      "sense": "in the place of (it)",
      "word": "ina ionad"
    },
    {
      "code": "ga",
      "lang": "Irish",
      "sense": "in the place of (it)",
      "word": "ina áit"
    },
    {
      "code": "it",
      "lang": "Italian",
      "sense": "in the place of (it)",
      "word": "in luogo di"
    },
    {
      "code": "it",
      "lang": "Italian",
      "sense": "in the place of (it)",
      "word": "invece"
    },
    {
      "code": "it",
      "lang": "Italian",
      "sense": "in the place of (it)",
      "word": "al posto di"
    },
    {
      "code": "ja",
      "lang": "Japanese",
      "roman": "...no kawari-ni",
      "sense": "in the place of (it)",
      "word": "...の代わりに"
    },
    {
      "code": "ko",
      "lang": "Korean",
      "roman": "daesine",
      "sense": "in the place of (it)",
      "word": "대신에"
    },
    {
      "code": "mk",
      "lang": "Macedonian",
      "roman": "namesto",
      "sense": "in the place of (it)",
      "word": "наместо"
    },
    {
      "code": "mk",
      "lang": "Macedonian",
      "roman": "mesto",
      "sense": "in the place of (it)",
      "word": "место"
    },
    {
      "code": "no",
      "lang": "Norwegian",
      "sense": "in the place of (it)",
      "word": "isteden"
    },
    {
      "code": "no",
      "lang": "Norwegian",
      "sense": "in the place of (it)",
      "word": "i staden"
    },
    {
      "code": "no",
      "lang": "Norwegian",
      "sense": "in the place of (it)",
      "word": "i stedet"
    },
    {
      "code": "pl",
      "lang": "Polish",
      "sense": "in the place of (it)",
      "word": "zamiast"
    },
    {
      "code": "pt",
      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "sense": "in the place of (it)",
      "word": "em vez de"
    },
    {
      "code": "pt",
      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "sense": "in the place of (it)",
      "word": "ao invés de"
    },
    {
      "code": "pt",
      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "sense": "in the place of (it)",
      "word": "antes"
    },
    {
      "code": "ro",
      "lang": "Romanian",
      "sense": "in the place of (it)",
      "word": "în loc de"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "vmésto",
      "sense": "in the place of (it)",
      "tags": [
        "with-genitive"
      ],
      "word": "вме́сто"
    },
    {
      "code": "sh",
      "lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
      "sense": "in the place of (it)",
      "tags": [
        "Cyrillic"
      ],
      "word": "место"
    },
    {
      "code": "sh",
      "lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
      "sense": "in the place of (it)",
      "tags": [
        "Cyrillic"
      ],
      "word": "misto"
    },
    {
      "code": "sh",
      "lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
      "sense": "in the place of (it)",
      "tags": [
        "Cyrillic"
      ],
      "word": "мјесто"
    },
    {
      "code": "sh",
      "lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
      "sense": "in the place of (it)",
      "tags": [
        "Cyrillic"
      ],
      "word": "уместо"
    },
    {
      "code": "sh",
      "lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
      "sense": "in the place of (it)",
      "tags": [
        "Cyrillic"
      ],
      "word": "умјесто"
    },
    {
      "code": "sh",
      "lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
      "sense": "in the place of (it)",
      "tags": [
        "Roman"
      ],
      "word": "mesto"
    },
    {
      "code": "sh",
      "lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
      "sense": "in the place of (it)",
      "tags": [
        "Roman"
      ],
      "word": "misto"
    },
    {
      "code": "sh",
      "lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
      "sense": "in the place of (it)",
      "tags": [
        "Roman"
      ],
      "word": "mjesto"
    },
    {
      "code": "sh",
      "lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
      "sense": "in the place of (it)",
      "tags": [
        "Roman"
      ],
      "word": "umesto"
    },
    {
      "code": "sh",
      "lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
      "sense": "in the place of (it)",
      "tags": [
        "Roman"
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      "word": "umjesto"
    },
    {
      "code": "sh",
      "lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
      "sense": "in the place of (it)",
      "tags": [
        "Roman"
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      "word": "u zamjenu"
    },
    {
      "code": "scn",
      "lang": "Sicilian",
      "sense": "in the place of (it)",
      "word": "mmeci"
    },
    {
      "code": "scn",
      "lang": "Sicilian",
      "sense": "in the place of (it)",
      "word": "scanciu"
    },
    {
      "code": "sl",
      "lang": "Slovene",
      "sense": "in the place of (it)",
      "word": "namésto"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "in the place of (it)",
      "word": "en vez de"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "in the place of (it)",
      "word": "en lugar de"
    },
    {
      "code": "sv",
      "lang": "Swedish",
      "sense": "in the place of (it)",
      "word": "istället"
    },
    {
      "code": "th",
      "lang": "Thai",
      "roman": "taen",
      "sense": "in the place of (it)",
      "word": "แทน"
    },
    {
      "code": "tr",
      "lang": "Turkish",
      "sense": "in the place of (it)",
      "word": "yerine"
    },
    {
      "code": "uk",
      "lang": "Ukrainian",
      "roman": "natómistʹ",
      "sense": "in the place of (it)",
      "word": "нато́мість"
    },
    {
      "code": "vec",
      "lang": "Venetian",
      "sense": "in the place of (it)",
      "word": "invése"
    },
    {
      "code": "vec",
      "lang": "Venetian",
      "sense": "in the place of (it)",
      "word": "invéze"
    },
    {
      "code": "vec",
      "lang": "Venetian",
      "sense": "in the place of (it)",
      "word": "inveẑe"
    },
    {
      "code": "vi",
      "lang": "Vietnamese",
      "sense": "in the place of (it)",
      "word": "thay vì"
    }
  ],
  "word": "instead"
}

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