stade

Meanings

1. Synonym of stadion (“former Greek unit of distance”).
2. A track for footraces and its surrounding stadium.
3. A stage of progress
4. in a journey.
5. of a disease.
6. in glaciation during which a secondary advance of the glaciers occurs.

1. A unit of length notionally based on the height of a grown man, equivalent to a fathom.
2. Synonym of estadio: a traditional Spanish unit of measure equivalent to about 1.67 m.

1. A chief town in an area or country.

1. Fabric or textiles from or similar to those of Stade.

1. A station for ships, as an anchorage or wharf.

1. A town and rural district of Lower Saxony, Germany.
2. A habitational surname from German.

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.