(rare, obsolete) A chief town in an area or country.

(obsolete) Fabric or textiles from or similar to those of Stade.

(nautical, obsolete) A station for ships, as an anchorage or wharf.

A Greek unit of measurement, equivalent to six plethra or six hundred podes, which, though varying in precise length, is generally accepted to be equivalent to approximately 185·4 metres.

A sports stadium consisting solely of numbered seats, with no terraces for standing spectators

plural of stadium

plural of staddle

plural of stadial

(geology) Pertaining to a glacial stade. / (archaeology, sociology) Pertaining to or existing in successive stages of a given culture, society etc.

(geology) A short, colder period within an interglacial; a stade.