stade
Pronunciation: /steɪd/
The English word “stade” has 10 meanings listed here.
noun
- Synonym of stadion (“former Greek unit of distance”).
- A track for footraces and its surrounding stadium.
- in a journey.
- of a disease.
- in glaciation during which a secondary advance of the glaciers occurs.
- A unit of length notionally based on the height of a grown man, equivalent to a fathom.
- Synonym of estadio: a traditional Spanish unit of measure equivalent to about 1.67 m.
- A chief town in an area or country.
- Fabric or textiles from or similar to those of Stade.
- A station for ships, as an anchorage or wharf.
Etymology
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.
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