stadium

Meaning

1. A venue where sporting events are held.
2. An Ancient Greek racecourse, especially, the Olympic course for foot races.
3. Synonym of stadion, a Greek unit of length equivalent to about 185 m.
4. A kind of telemeter for measuring the distance of an object of known dimensions, by observing the angle it subtends.
5. 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.
6. A life stage of an organism.

Synonyms

arena

sports stadium

bowl

grandstand

stage

field

stadia

amphitheater

hippodrome

grounds

phase

pitch

playground

playhouse

racecourse

scope

stand

theater

theatre

vessel

ball park

sports park

athletic park

palestrae

athletic grounds

ground for sports

age

of stadium

ballpark

career

coliseum

colliseum

court

golf course

instar

palestra

period

Hyphenated as

sta‧di‧um

Pronounced as (IPA)

/ˈsteɪ.di.əm/

Etymology

Cognate with Latin: stare

In summary

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.

Sentences

Independence Park Stadium , a tiny public baseball stadium , is also close by .

The stadium can also host large music concerts and events .

In addition , the stadium has an exclusive parking inside for players and officials .

The Workers Indoor Arena is located to the west of the stadium .