stade

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English

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Etymology 1

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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.

Noun

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stade (plural stades)

  1. (historical) Synonym of stadion: a former Greek unit of distance (variously 150–210 m at different places and times).
  2. (dated) A track for footraces and its surrounding stadium.
  3. A stage of progress
    1. (obsolete) in a journey.
    2. (medicine, obsolete) of a disease.
    3. (geology) in glaciation during which a secondary advance of the glaciers occurs.

Etymology 2

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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.

Noun

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stade (plural stades)

  1. (historical) A unit of length notionally based on the height of a grown man, equivalent to a fathom.
  2. (units of measure, obsolete) Synonym of estadio: a traditional Spanish unit of measure equivalent to about 1.67 m.

Etymology 3

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From Dutch stad. Doublet of stead.

Noun

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stade (plural stades)

  1. (rare, obsolete) A chief town in an area or country.

Etymology 4

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From German Stade, a town in Hanover.

Noun

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stade (plural stades)

  1. (obsolete) Fabric or textiles from or similar to those of Stade.

Etymology 5

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From Old English staed. Cognate with German Gestade (shore).

Noun

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stade (plural stades)

  1. (nautical, obsolete) A station for ships, as an anchorage or wharf.
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References

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  • "stade, n.1", "n.2", "n.3", & "n.4", in the Oxford English Dictionary, Oxford: Oxford University Press.
  • "stade" in William Henry Smith's 1867 The Sailor's Word-Book.

Anagrams

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Dutch

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Pronunciation

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Noun

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stade

  1. (archaic) dative singular of stad

French

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Etymology

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From Latin stadium, from Ancient Greek στάδιον (stádion), neuter form of στάδιος (stádios, stable, firm), from Proto-Indo-European *steh₂- (to be standing).

Pronunciation

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Noun

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stade m (plural stades)

  1. (historical) stadion (Ancient Greek unit of measurement)
  2. stadium (Greek race course)
  3. stadium (sports arena)
  4. (medicine) stage
    un stade avancé d’une maladiean advanced stage of an illness
  5. stage (phase)

Derived terms

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Descendants

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  • Turkish: stat

Further reading

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Anagrams

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Gothic

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Romanization

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stade

  1. Romanization of 𐍃𐍄𐌰𐌳𐌴

Norwegian Nynorsk

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Verb

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stade

  1. (non-standard since 2012) past participle of standa