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stadium

noun · 7 senses · updated from the 2026-07-25 local source snapshot

Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.

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Pronunciation

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  • /ˈsteɪ.di.əm/
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1

noun

Meaning 1

A venue where sporting events are held.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Examples

  • He is going for a cricket match at the stadium.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

2

noun

Meaning 2

An Ancient Greek racecourse, especially, the Olympic course for foot races.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: stadion

Antonyms: none provided

3

noun

Meaning 3

Synonym of stadion, a Greek unit of length equivalent to about 185 m.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: historical

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: stadion

Antonyms: none provided

4

noun

Meaning 4

A kind of telemeter for measuring the distance of an object of known dimensions, by observing the angle it subtends.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

5

noun

Meaning 5

A graduated rod used to measure the distance of the place where it stands from an instrument having a telescope, by observing the number of the graduations of the rod that are seen between certain parallel wires (stadia wires) in the field of view of the telescope.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Topics: geography, natural-sciences, surveying

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

6

noun

Meaning 6

A life stage of an organism.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Topics: biology, natural-sciences

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

7

noun

Meaning 7

a large structure for open-air sports or entertainments

Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: bowl, arena, sports stadium

Antonyms: none provided

Broader terms: structure, construction

Narrower terms: amphitheater, amphitheatre, coliseum, ballpark, park, bullring, circus, dome, domed stadium, covered stadium, football stadium, hippodrome, skybox

History

Etymology

From Latin stadium (“a measure of length, a race course”) (commonly one-eighth of a Roman mile; translated in early English Bibles by furlong), from Ancient Greek στάδιον (stádion, “a measure of length, a running track”), especially the track at Olympia, which was one stadium in length. The Greek word may literally mean "fixed standard of length" (from στάδιος (stádios, “firm, fixed”), from Proto-Indo-European *steh2-, whence also stand and Latin stare). Doublet of stade, stadion, and estadio. Displaced native Old English spyrd.

Across languages

Translations

114 source translations are retained for this English entry.

  • Afrikaans: stadion — venue where sporting events are held
  • Albanian: stadium — venue where sporting events are held
  • Amharic: ስታዲየም (sətadiyäm) — venue where sporting events are held
  • Arabic: مَلْعَب (malʕab) — venue where sporting events are held
  • Arabic: إِسْتَاد (ʔistād) — venue where sporting events are held
  • Arabic: استاد (estād) — venue where sporting events are held
  • Arabic: ستاد (stād) — venue where sporting events are held
  • Arabic: مَلْعَب (malʕab) — venue where sporting events are held
  • Arabic: إستاد (istād) — venue where sporting events are held
  • Arabic: ستاد (stād) — venue where sporting events are held
  • Armenian: ստադիոն (stadion) — venue where sporting events are held
  • Armenian: մարզադաշտ (marzadašt) — venue where sporting events are held
  • Asturian: estadiu — venue where sporting events are held
  • Azerbaijani: stadion — venue where sporting events are held
  • Belarusian: стадыён (stadyjón) — venue where sporting events are held
  • Bengali: স্টেডিয়াম (sṭeḍiẏam) — venue where sporting events are held
  • Breton: stadion — venue where sporting events are held
  • Breton: sportva — venue where sporting events are held
  • Bulgarian: стадио́н (stadión) — venue where sporting events are held
  • Burmese: စတေဒီယံ (ca.tediyam) — venue where sporting events are held
  • Burmese: အားကစားကွင်း (a:ka.ca:kwang:) — venue where sporting events are held
  • Catalan: estadi — venue where sporting events are held
  • Chinese Mandarin: 體育場 /体育场 (tǐyùchǎng) — venue where sporting events are held
  • Corsican: stadiu — venue where sporting events are held
  • Czech: stadión — venue where sporting events are held
  • Danish: stadion — venue where sporting events are held
  • Dutch: stadion — venue where sporting events are held
  • Esperanto: stadiono — venue where sporting events are held
  • Esperanto: pilkejo — venue where sporting events are held
  • Estonian: staadion — venue where sporting events are held
  • Finnish: stadion — venue where sporting events are held
  • French: stade — venue where sporting events are held
  • West-Frisian: stadion — venue where sporting events are held
  • Georgian: სტადიონი (sṭadioni) — venue where sporting events are held
  • German: Stadion — venue where sporting events are held
  • Bavarian German: Stadion — venue where sporting events are held
  • Greek: στάδιο (stádio) — venue where sporting events are held
  • Hebrew: אִצְטַדְיוֹן (itstadyón) — venue where sporting events are held
  • Hindi: स्टेडियम (sṭeḍiyam) — venue where sporting events are held
  • Hungarian: stadion — venue where sporting events are held
  • Icelandic: leikvangur — venue where sporting events are held
  • Ido: stadio — venue where sporting events are held
  • Indonesian: GOR — venue where sporting events are held
  • Indonesian: istora — venue where sporting events are held
  • Indonesian: stadion — venue where sporting events are held
  • Irish: staid — venue where sporting events are held
  • Irish: staidiam — venue where sporting events are held
  • Italian: stadio — venue where sporting events are held
  • Japanese: スタジアム (sutajiamu) — venue where sporting events are held
  • Japanese: 競技場 (kyōgijō) — venue where sporting events are held
  • Kalmyk: цеңглң (tseñglñ) — venue where sporting events are held
  • Kazakh: стадион (stadion) — venue where sporting events are held
  • Khmer: កីឡាដ្ឋាន (kəylaathaan) — venue where sporting events are held
  • Korean: 경기장 (gyeonggijang) — venue where sporting events are held
  • Korean: 스타디움 (seutadium) — venue where sporting events are held
  • Northern Kurdish: stad — venue where sporting events are held
  • Northern Kurdish: stadyûm — venue where sporting events are held
  • Kyrgyz: стадион (stadion) — venue where sporting events are held
  • Lao: ສະຫນາມກິລາ (sa nām ki lā) — venue where sporting events are held
  • Lao: ເດີ່ນກິລາ (dœ̄n ki lā) — venue where sporting events are held
  • Latvian: stadions — venue where sporting events are held
  • Lithuanian: stadionas — venue where sporting events are held
  • Macedonian: стадион (stadion) — venue where sporting events are held
  • Malay: stadium — venue where sporting events are held
  • Maltese: stadju — venue where sporting events are held
  • Māori: whare hākinakina — venue where sporting events are held
  • Mongolian: цэнгэлдэх хүрээлэн (cengeldex xüreelen) — venue where sporting events are held
  • Mongolian: стадион (stadion) — venue where sporting events are held
  • Mongolian: ᠴᠡᠩᠭᠡᠯᠳᠦᠬᠦ ᠬᠦᠷᠢᠶᠡᠯᠡᠩ (čenggeldükü küriyeleng) — venue where sporting events are held
  • Mongolian: ᠰᠲ᠋ᠠᠳᠢᠶᠣᠨ (stadiyon) — venue where sporting events are held
  • Navajo: biiʼndaʼaʼnéhé — venue where sporting events are held
  • Norwegian Bokmål: stadion — venue where sporting events are held
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: stadion — venue where sporting events are held
  • Pashto: ستديوم (stedyum) — venue where sporting events are held
  • Pashto: سټېډيوم (sṭeḍyom) — venue where sporting events are held
  • Iranian Persian: وَرْزِشْگاه (varzešgâh) — venue where sporting events are held
  • Iranian Persian: اِسْتادْیوم (estâdyom) — venue where sporting events are held
  • Polish: stadion — venue where sporting events are held
  • Polish: arena — venue where sporting events are held
  • Portuguese: estádio — venue where sporting events are held
  • Romanian: stadion — venue where sporting events are held
  • Russian: стадио́н (stadión) — venue where sporting events are held
  • Russian: риста́лище (ristálišče) — venue where sporting events are held
  • Serbo-Croatian: ста̏дио̄н — venue where sporting events are held
  • Serbo-Croatian: stȁdiōn — venue where sporting events are held
  • Slovak: štadión — venue where sporting events are held
  • Slovene: stadion — venue where sporting events are held
  • Spanish: estadio — venue where sporting events are held
  • Swedish: stadion — venue where sporting events are held
  • Tagalog: estadyo — venue where sporting events are held
  • Tajik: майдон (maydon) — venue where sporting events are held
  • Tajik: стадион (stadion) — venue where sporting events are held
  • Tajik: варзишгоҳ (varzišgoh) — venue where sporting events are held
  • Tatar: стадион (stadiyon) — venue where sporting events are held
  • Tetum: estádiun — venue where sporting events are held
  • Thai: สนามกีฬา (sà-nǎam-gii-laa) — venue where sporting events are held
  • Tigrinya: እስታዲዮም (ʾəstadiyom) — venue where sporting events are held
  • Turkish: stadyum — venue where sporting events are held
  • Turkish: stat — venue where sporting events are held
  • Turkmen: stadion — venue where sporting events are held
  • Ukrainian: стадіо́н (stadión) — venue where sporting events are held
  • Urdu: اِسْٹیڈِیَم (isṭeḍiyam) — venue where sporting events are held
  • Uyghur: تەنتەربىيە مەيدانى (tenterbiye meydani) — venue where sporting events are held
  • Uzbek: stadion — venue where sporting events are held
  • Vietnamese: sân vận động — venue where sporting events are held
  • Welsh: stadiwm — venue where sporting events are held
  • Welsh: campfa — venue where sporting events are held
  • Yiddish: סטאַדיע (stadye) — venue where sporting events are held
  • Yiddish: סטאַדיאָן (stadyon) — venue where sporting events are held
  • Dutch: stadion — race course, especially, the Olympic course for foot races
  • Greek: στάδιο (stádio) — race course, especially, the Olympic course for foot races
  • Greek: σταδιόμετρο (stadiómetro) — telemeter
  • Bulgarian: ла́та (láta) — graduated rod in surveying
  • Greek: σταδία (stadía) — graduated rod in surveying
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