stage, leg
(noun) a section or portion of a journey or course; âthen we embarked on the second stage of our Caribbean cruiseâ
stage
(noun) a large platform on which people can stand and can be seen by an audience; âhe clambered up onto the stage and got the actors to help him into the boxâ
stage, microscope stage
(noun) a small platform on a microscope where the specimen is mounted for examination
stagecoach, stage
(noun) a large coach-and-four formerly used to carry passengers and mail on regular routes between towns; âwe went out of town together by stage about ten or twelve milesâ
stage
(noun) the theater as a profession (usually âthe stageâ); âan early movie simply showed a long kiss by two actors of the contemporary stageâ
stage
(noun) any scene regarded as a setting for exhibiting or doing something; âAll the worldâs a stageâ--Shakespeare; âit set the stage for peaceful negotiationsâ
degree, level, stage, point
(noun) a specific identifiable position in a continuum or series or especially in a process; âa remarkable degree of franknessâ; âat what stage are the social sciences?â
phase, stage
(noun) any distinct time period in a sequence of events; âwe are in a transitional stage in which many former ideas must be revised or rejectedâ
stage, arrange
(verb) plan, organize, and carry out (an event); âthe neighboring tribe staged an invasionâ
stage, present, represent
(verb) perform (a play), especially on a stage; âwe are going to stage âOthelloââ
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Stage (plural Stages)
A surname.
• According to the 2010 United States Census, Stage is the 11856th most common surname in the United States, belonging to 2641 individuals. Stage is most common among White (93.45%) individuals.
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stage (plural stages)
A phase.
(theater) A platform; a surface, generally elevated, upon which show performances or other public events are given.
A floor or storey of a house.
A floor elevated for the convenience of mechanical work, etc.; scaffolding; staging.
A platform, often floating, serving as a kind of wharf.
A stagecoach, an enclosed horsedrawn carriage used to carry passengers.
(dated) A place of rest on a regularly travelled road; a station; a place appointed for a relay of horses.
(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.
(electronics) The number of an electronic circuitâs block, such as a filter, an amplifier, etc.
The place on a microscope where the slide is located for viewing.
(video games) A level; one of the sequential areas making up the game.
Synonym: level
A place where anything is publicly exhibited, or a remarkable affair occurs; the scene.
(geology) The succession of rock strata laid down in a single age on the geologic time scale.
• (phase): tier, level
• (video games): level, map, area, world, track, board, zone, phase
stage (third-person singular simple present stages, present participle staging, simple past and past participle staged)
(transitive) To produce on a stage, to perform a play.
To demonstrate in a deceptive manner.
(transitive) To orchestrate; to carry out.
(transitive) To place in position to prepare for use.
(transitive, medicine) To determine what stage (a disease, etc.) has progressed to
• (demonstrate in a deceptive manner): fake
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Source: Wiktionary
Stage, n. Etym: [OF. estage, F. Ă©tage, (assumed) LL. staticum, from L. stare to stand. See Stand, and cf. Static.]
1. A floor or story of a house. [Obs.] Wyclif.
2. An elevated platform on which an orator may speak, a play be performed, an exhibition be presented, or the like.
3. A floor elevated for the convenience of mechanical work, or the like; a scaffold; a staging.
4. A platform, often floating, serving as a kind of wharf.
5. The floor for scenic performances; hence, the theater; the playhouse; hence, also, the profession of representing dramatic compositions; the drama, as acted or exhibited. Knights, squires, and steeds, must enter on the stage. Pope. Lo! Where the stage, the poor, degraded stage, Holds its warped mirror to a gaping age. C. Sprague.
6. A place where anything is publicly exhibited; the scene of any noted action or carrer; the spot where any remarkable affair occurs. When we are born, we cry that we are come To this stage of fools. Shak. Music and ethereal mirth Wherewith the stage of air and earth did ring. Miton.
7. The platform of a microscope, upon which an object is placed to be viewed. See Illust. of Microscope.
8. A place of rest on a regularly traveled road; a stage house; a station; a place appointed for a relay of horses.
9. 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; as, a stage of ten miles. A stage . . . signifies a certain distance on a road. Jeffrey. He traveled by gig, with his wife, his favorite horse performing the journey by easy stages. Smiles.
10. A degree of advancement in any pursuit, or of progress toward an end or result. Such a polity is suited only to a particular stage in the progress of society. Macaulay.
11. A large vehicle running from station to station for the accomodation of the public; a stagecoach; an omnibus. "A parcel sent you by the stage." Cowper. I went in the sixpenny stage. Swift.
12. (Biol.)
Definition: One of several marked phases or periods in the development and growth of many animals and plants; as, the larval stage; pupa stage; zoea stage. Stage box, a box close to the stage in a theater.
– Stage carriage, a stagecoach.
– Stage door, the actor's and workmen's entrance to a theater.
– Stage lights, the lights by which the stage in a theater is illuminated.
– Stage micrometer, a graduated device applied to the stage of a microscope for measuring the size of an object.
– Stage wagon, a wagon which runs between two places for conveying passengers or goods.
– Stage whisper, a loud whisper, as by an actor in a theater, supposed, for dramatic effect, to be unheard by one or more of his fellow actors, yet audible to the audience; an aside. stage of the game, [Colloq.] stage n. 10.
Stage, v. t.
Definition: To exhibit upon a stage, or as upon a stage; to display publicly. Shak.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
22 January 2025
(noun) memorial consisting of a very large stone forming part of a prehistoric structure (especially in western Europe)
The earliest credible evidence of coffee-drinking as the modern beverage appeared in modern-day Yemen. In the middle of the 15th century in Sufi shrines where coffee seeds were first roasted and brewed for drinking. The Yemenis procured the coffee beans from the Ethiopian Highlands.
