stadiums

Noun

stadium (plural stadiums or stadia)

1. A venue where sporting events are held.
   • He is going for a cricket match at the stadium.

   Synonyms:

   arena

2. An Ancient Greek racecourse, especially, the Olympic course for foot races.

   Synonyms:

   stadion

3. (historical) Synonym of stadion, a Greek unit of length equivalent to about 185 m.
   • Dionysiodorus[…]sent a letter ad superos after he was dead, from the centre of the earth, to signify what distance the same centre was from the superficies of the same, viz. 42,000 stadiums […].1624, Democritus Junior [pseudonym; Robert Burton], The Anatomy of Melancholy: […], 2nd edition, Oxford, Oxfordshire: […] John Lichfield and James Short, for Henry Cripps, →OCLC, partition 2, section...

   Synonyms:

   stadion

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.

   Synonyms:

   stadia, stadia rod

6. A life stage of an organism.