/steɪd/
OriginFrom Latin stadium, from Ancient Greek στάδιον (stádion), a 600-foot racetrack, a distance of 600 Greek feet. Cognate with French stade. Doublet of stadium, stadion, and estadio.
- historicalSynonym of stadion (“former Greek unit of distance”).
- datedA track for footraces and its surrounding stadium.
- obsoletein a journey.
- obsoleteof a disease.
- in glaciation during which a secondary advance of the glaciers occurs.
- historicalA unit of length notionally based on the height of a grown man, equivalent to a fathom.
- obsoleteSynonym of estadio: a traditional Spanish unit of measure equivalent to about 1.67 m.
- obsolete, rareA chief town in an area or country.
- obsoleteFabric or textiles from or similar to those of Stade.
- obsoleteA station for ships, as an anchorage or wharf.
- countable, uncountableA town and rural district of Lower Saxony, Germany.
- countable, uncountableA habitational surname from German.
Formsstades(plural) · Stades(plural)