stadium

CEFRA2

/ˈsteɪ.di.əm/

noun

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  1. 01

    noun

    A large sports ground with seats around it.

  2. 02

    noun

    Extra detail

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

Examples

  • All the seats in the stadium are numbered.

  • How long does it take to get to the stadium?

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Sits at A2 on the CEFR scale

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Deep Dive

noun

Extra meanings

  1. Synonym of stadion, a Greek unit of length equivalent to about 185 m.

  2. A venue where sporting events are held.

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

More examples

In context

  • The excited crowd poured out of the stadium.

  • He is going for a cricket match at the stadium.

  • Dionysiodorus[…]sent a letter ad superos after he was dead, from the centre of the earth, to signify what distance the same centre was from the superficies of the same, viz. 42,000 stadiums […].

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Origin

noun

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.