stade

noun

Examples of stade in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web She is credited as Céline’s personal assistant on the live albums Au cœur du stade and Live à Paris. Nicole Briese, Peoplemag, 26 July 2023 Although this year’s summer Olympics include 33 sports, in the beginning there was only one: a 192-meter sprint called the stadion, or stade. Marisa Sloan, Discover Magazine, 5 Aug. 2021 Supplied with that information, Eratosthenes deduced Earth’s circumference as 250,000 stades, a Hellenistic unit of length equaling roughly 600 feet. Adam Hadhazy, Discover Magazine, 10 Oct. 2019

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Word History

Etymology

Middle French estade, from Latin stadium

First Known Use

1537, in the meaning defined above

Time Traveler
The first known use of stade was in 1537

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“Stade.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/stade. Accessed 17 Apr. 2024.

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