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
Standard Lemma guide
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.
Sound
Each Play button uses your device's default local English voice, or a natural local fallback. The selected voice name appears after playback. This is synthesized speech, not a source recording.
noun
A venue where sporting events are held.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
noun
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.
Synonyms: stadion
Antonyms: none provided
noun
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.
Synonyms: stadion
Antonyms: none provided
noun
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.
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
noun
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.
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
noun
A life stage of an organism.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: biology, natural-sciences
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
noun
a large structure for open-air sports or entertainments
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
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
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
114 source translations are retained for this English entry.