Stadium Meaning
/ˈsteɪ.di.əm/Definition, CEFR level A2, pronunciation, examples, and quiz.
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Definition
nounA venue where sporting events are held.
nounAn Ancient Greek racecourse, especially, the Olympic course for foot races.
Sentence Examples
The excited crowd poured out of the stadium.
How long does it take to get to the stadium?
All the seats in the stadium are numbered.
CEFR Practice Quiz
The championship game will take place at the new ____ with 50,000 seats.
CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)
Thousands of excited fans gathered at the ____ to watch the final game of the football season.
Word Origin & History
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.
Literary Quotations & Historical Citations
"In a convulsion that has caught many in Brazil and beyond by surprise, waves of protesters denounced their leaders for dedicating so many resources to cultivating Brazil’s global image by building stadiums for international events, when basic services like education and health care remain woefully inadequate."
— 2013 June 18, Simon Romero, “Protests Widen as Brazilians Chide Leaders”, in New York Times:
"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 […]."
— 1624, Democritus Junior [pseudonym; Robert Burton], The Anatomy of Melancholy: […], 2nd edition, Oxford, Oxfordshire: […] John Lichfield and James Short, for Henry Cripps, →OCLC, partition 2, section 2, member 3, page 245:
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CEFR Practice Quiz
The championship game will take place at the new ____ with 50,000 seats.
CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)
Thousands of excited fans gathered at the ____ to watch the final game of the football season.