sta|di|um

sta|di|um
sta|di|um «STAY dee uhm», noun, plural -di|ums or -di|a.
1. a place shaped like an oval or a U, consisting of tiers of seats around an open field: »

The stadium was filled for the final baseball game.

SYNONYM(S): amphitheater.
2. an ancient Greek running track for footraces, with tiers of seats along each side and at one end. The stadium at Athens was about 607 feet long.
3. a unit of linear measure used in various parts of the ancient world, varying according to time and place, but most commonly equal to slightly over 600 feet or 1/8 of a Roman mile.
4. a) Biology. a stage of a process. b) a stage of a disease.
╂[< Latin stadium < Greek stádion 607 feet (see def. 2)]
Usage In the sense of def. 1, the plural is usually stadiums. In the senses of defs. 2, 3, and 4, the plural is regularly stadia.

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