stage

Meaning

Noun

1. A phase.
2. (broadly) One of the portions of a device (such as a rocket or thermonuclear weapon) which are used or activated in a particular order, one after another.
3. A platform; a surface, generally elevated, upon which show performances or other public events are given.
4. A floor or storey of a house.
5. A floor elevated for the convenience of mechanical work, etc.; scaffolding; staging.
6. A platform, often floating, serving as a kind of wharf.
7. A stagecoach, an enclosed horsedrawn carriage used to carry passengers; the service that such coaches provide; a company that operates such service.
8. (dated) A place of rest on a regularly travelled road; a station, way station; a place appointed for a relay of horses.
9. (dated) A degree of advancement in a journey; one of several portions into which a road or course is marked off; the distance between two places of rest on a road.
10. The number of an electronic circuit’s block, such as a filter, an amplifier, etc.
11. The place on a microscope where the slide is located for viewing.
12. A level; one of the areas making up the game.
13. A place where anything is publicly exhibited, or a remarkable affair occurs; the scene.
14. The succession of rock strata laid down in a single age on the geologic time scale.
15. (Canada, Quebec) An internship.
16. The notional space within which stereo sounds are positioned, determining where they will appear to come from when played back.
17. (metonymically, uncountable, with-definite-article) The profession of an actor.

Verb

1. (transitive) To produce on a stage, to perform a play.
2. To demonstrate in a deceptive manner.
3. (transitive) To orchestrate; to carry out.
4. (transitive) To place in position to prepare for use.
5. (transitive) To determine what stage (a disease, etc.) has progressed to
6. To jettison a spent stage of a multistage rocket or other launch vehicle and light the engine(s) of the stage above it.
7. (Canada, US, intransitive) To work an internship, usually as a chef or waiter.

Verb

To work as an unpaid intern in a restaurant.

Synonyms

phase

platform

period

step

level

degree

scene

point

grade

leg

🦵

theatre

scaffold

epoch

arena

present

theater

season

rostrum

era

raised platform

produce

term

station

🚉

organize

microscope stage

boards

show

staging

represent

play

arrange

stand

dais

stop

🛑

put on

hold

time

⌚

age

order

stadium

🏟️

gradation

stagecoach

frame

act

chapter

provoke

cause to take place

pulpit

cause

bus

🚌

Translations

Bühne

scène

stadio

🏟️

étape

escenario

etapa

fase

scena

phase

tappa

stade

fase

palco

Pronounced as (IPA)

/steɪd͡ʒ/

Etymology

Inherited from Middle English: stage

Cognate with Old English: stæþþan

Cognate with Old Norse: steðja

Cognate with Old English: stæde

In summary

From Middle English stage, from Old French estage (“dwelling, residence; position, situation, condition”), from Old French ester (“to be standing, be located”). Cognate with Old English stæþþan (“to make staid, stay”), Old Norse steðja (“to place, provide, confirm, allow”), Old English stede (“state, status, standing, place, station, site”). More at stead. Doublet of étage.

Sentences

The camera cut to the band on stage , ready to perform .

The second launch in November ended with a failure during second stage burn .

This is the sixth stage of economic integration .