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stade¹
- /steɪd/
- /sted/ Scotland
Sounds like staid (general), stayed (except Scotland)
Where it comes from
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 stades
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Synonym of stadion (“former Greek unit of distance”).
Similar: stadion
- 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.
stade²
- /steɪd/
- /sted/ Scotland
Sounds like staid (general), stayed (except Scotland)
Where it comes from
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 stades
- A unit of length notionally based on the height of a grown man, equivalent to a fathom.
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Synonym of estadio: a traditional Spanish unit of measure equivalent to about 1.67 m.
Similar: estadio
stade³
- /steɪd/
- /sted/ Scotland
Sounds like staid (general), stayed (except Scotland)
Where it comes from
From Dutch stad. Doublet of stead.
noun stades
- A chief town in an area or country.
stade⁴
- /steɪd/
- /sted/ Scotland
Sounds like staid (general), stayed (except Scotland)
Where it comes from
From German Stade, a town in Hanover.
noun stades
- Fabric or textiles from or similar to those of Stade.
stade⁵
- /steɪd/
- /sted/ Scotland
Sounds like staid (general), stayed (except Scotland)
Where it comes from
From Old English staed. Cognate with German Gestade (“shore”).
noun stades
- A station for ships, as an anchorage or wharf.
Stade⁶
Where it comes from
Borrowed from German Stade.
proper noun Stades
- A town and rural district of Lower Saxony, Germany.
- A habitational surname from German.
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title = {stade},
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