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soustedí

Soustedí is a Czech term that is not widely used in contemporary standard Czech. It appears mainly in historical documents and regional speech, where it denotes the immediate surroundings of a place—the neighboring plots, houses, and people who form a local area. The sense is closer to “vicinity” or “the neighborhood around a site,” but it often carries a stronger emphasis on the social and spatial ties of a locality rather than mere distance.

Usage and meaning

In older cadastral records and regional literature, soustедí can appear in phrases describing the surrounding domain

Origin and form

Soustedí is generally considered a historical or dialectal form derived from the word soused (neighbor) with

Relation to related terms

In modern Czech, the concepts most often expressed with soustedí would be sousedství (neighborhood) or okolí

See also: sousedství, okolí, cadastral terminology.

of
a
property
or
estate.
It
may
refer
to
the
contiguous
parcels
and
households
that
are
regarded
as
part
of
the
same
local
community.
Because
of
its
historical
flavor,
the
term
can
convey
both
geographic
adjacency
and
a
sense
of
local
belonging,
unlike
more
neutral
modern
terms
such
as
okolí
or
sousedství.
a
suffix
that
forms
a
collective
noun.
Its
precise
usage
and
connotations
varied
regionally
and
over
time,
contributing
to
its
limited
presence
in
current
standard
language.
(vicinity).
These
terms
are
preferred
in
everyday
language,
while
soustedí
may
appear
in
historical
texts
to
reflect
older
ways
of
describing
local
spatial
and
social
structure.