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name
A town and rural district of Lower Saxony, Germany.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
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name
A habitational surname from German.
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Usage: countable, uncountable
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noun
Synonym of stadion (“former Greek unit of distance”).
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: historical
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Synonyms: stadion
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noun
A track for footraces and its surrounding stadium.
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Usage: dated
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noun
A stage of progress
in a journey.
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Usage: obsolete
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noun
A stage of progress
of a disease.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: obsolete
Topics: medicine, sciences
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noun
A stage of progress
in glaciation during which a secondary advance of the glaciers occurs.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: geography, geology, natural-sciences
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noun
A unit of length notionally based on the height of a grown man, equivalent to a fathom.
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Usage: historical
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noun
Synonym of estadio: a traditional Spanish unit of measure equivalent to about 1.67 m.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: obsolete
Topics: units-of-measure
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Synonyms: estadio
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noun
A chief town in an area or country.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: obsolete, rare
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noun
Fabric or textiles from or similar to those of Stade.
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Usage: obsolete
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noun
A station for ships, as an anchorage or wharf.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: obsolete
Topics: nautical, transport
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History
Borrowed from German Stade.
From 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.
From Spanish estado, from Latin status (“standing”), in reference to it being roughly the height of a grown man. Doublet of estate, state, status, and estado.
From Dutch stad. Doublet of stead.
From German Stade, a town in Hanover.
From Old English staed. Cognate with German Gestade (“shore”).
