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stadium
[ stey-dee-uhm ]
noun
- a sports arena, usually oval or horseshoe-shaped, with tiers of seats for spectators.
- an ancient Greek course for foot races, typically semicircular, with tiers of seats for spectators.
- an ancient Greek and Roman unit of length, the Athenian unit being equal to about 607 feet (185 meters).
- a stage in a process or in the life of an organism.
- Entomology. stage ( def 11b ).
stadium
/ ˈsteɪdɪəm /
noun
- a sports arena with tiered seats for spectators
- (in ancient Greece) a course for races, usually located between two hills providing natural slopes for tiers of seats
- an ancient Greek measure of length equivalent to about 607 feet or 184 metres
- (in many arthropods) the interval between two consecutive moultings
- obsolete.a particular period or stage in the development of a disease
Word History and Origins
Origin of stadium1
Word History and Origins
Origin of stadium1
Example Sentences
In fact, he's not even high on the list of NFL players one jerks off too during halftime at Gillette Stadium.
The Dallas Cowboys sell out their state-of-the art football stadium.
It was around noon that Brinsley chucked the phone behind a radiator at the basketball stadium and went off the grid.
The flag that was unveiled at Yankee Stadium 19 days after 9/11 was a different, much larger one.
A winning team may pack the stadium, but you need that packed stadium to get top recruits and sustain victories.
Mithridates discharged an arrow from the angle of the roof, and supposed that it fell a little beyond the distance of a stadium.
It was a quadrangular pyramid of baked brick, a stadium in height, and each of the sides a stadium in length.
For the river, which is a stadium in breadth, flows through the middle of the city, and the garden is on the side of the river.
One of the servants and flatterers of Agathocles, whose name was Philo, came out to the stadium still flustered with wine.
As soon as they had got the king, the Macedonians placed him on a horse and conducted him to the stadium.
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