stadium
A venue where sporting events are held.
Noun 4 meanings
A venue where sporting events are held.
“He is going for a cricket match at the stadium.”
An Ancient Greek racecourse, especially, the Olympic course for foot races.
A kind of telemeter for measuring the distance of an object of known dimensions, by observing the angle it subtends.
A graduated rod used to measure the distance of the place where it stands from an instrument having a telescope, by observing the number of the graduations of the rod that are seen between certain parallel wires (stadia wires) in the field of view of the telescope.
Etymology
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.
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STADIUM at a glance
STADIUM has 7 letters and scores 10 points in Scrabble (S 1 + T 1 + A 1 + D 2 + I 1 + U 1 + M 3) and 12 in Words With Friends, before board bonuses. It ranks #2,314 by how often it appears in everyday English. It is valid in ENABLE, NWL2023, Collins/SOWPODS.
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