Meaning

6 senses
  1. A venue where sporting events are held.

    He is going for a cricket match at the stadium.

    Stadion

    стадио́нstadión, риста́лищеristálišče

    стадіо́нstadión

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

  3. (historical)Synonym of stadion, a Greek unit of length equivalent to about 185 m.

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

  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.

  6. A life stage of an organism.

More definitions
  • a large structure for open-air sports or entertainments

Examples

145 sentences
  1. Tom is somewhere in the stadium.

    Том десь на стадіоні.

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  2. Tom has gone to the stadium.

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  3. How did you get to the stadium?

    ruКак ты добрался до стадиона?

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  4. How can I get to the stadium?

    deWie komme ich zum Stadion?

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  5. There were lots of people in the stadium.

    ruНа стадионе было полно народа.

    deIm Stadion waren jede Menge Leute.

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Translations

9 languages
Українська
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venue where sporting events are held:
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Origin

From Latin stadium (“a measure of length, a race course”) (commonly one-eighth of a Roman

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.

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Forms

plural: stadiums / stadia
Singularstadium
Pluralstadiums / stadia

regular

Synonyms

6 synonyms
venue where sporting events are held:arenaB2
graduated rod in surveying:stadiastadia rod
Close in meaning

Word family

10 related words

Collocations

3 patterns
  • in the stadium
  • to the stadium
  • the stadium is

See also

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