stade
Plural: stades
Noun
- An ancient Greek unit of length, approximately 600 feet.
- Synonym of stadion (“former Greek unit of distance”).
- A track for footraces and its surrounding stadium.
- A stage of progress
- in a journey.
- A stage of progress
- of a disease.
- A stage of progress
- 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.
Examples
- His strategy covered a STADE of possibilities, but he still couldn’t find a bingo.
Origin / 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.
Scrabble Score: 6
stade: valid Scrabble (US) TWL Wordstade: valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
stade: valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary
Words With Friends Score: 6
stade: valid Words With Friends Word