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Meaning of 'stage' (Webster Dictionary)

1 . Stage [ n.]
- A floor or story of a house.
- An elevated platform on which an orator may speak, a play be performed, an exhibition be presented, or the like.
- A floor elevated for the convenience of mechanical work, or the like; a scaffold; a staging.
- A platform, often floating, serving as a kind of wharf.
- The floor for scenic performances; hence, the theater; the playhouse; hence, also, the profession of representing dramatic compositions; the drama, as acted or exhibited.
- A place where anything is publicly exhibited; the scene of any noted action or carrer; the spot where any remarkable affair occurs.
- The platform of a microscope, upon which an object is placed to be viewed. See Illust. of Microscope.
- A place of rest on a regularly traveled road; a stage house; a station; a place appointed for a relay of horses.
- 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 degree of advancement in any pursuit, or of progress toward an end or result.
- A large vehicle running from station to station for the accomodation of the public; a stagecoach; an omnibus.
- 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.
2 . Stage [ v. t.]
- To exhibit upon a stage, or as upon a stage; to display publicly.

Meaning of 'stage' (Princeton's WordNet)

1 . stage [ n]
Meaning (1):
- a specific identifiable position in a continuum or series or especially in a process
Example in sentence:
  • a remarkable degree of frankness;
  • at what stage are the social sciences?
Meaning (2):
- any scene regarded as a setting for exhibiting or doing something
Example in sentence:
  • All the world's a stage;
  • it set the stage for peaceful negotiations
Meaning (3):
- the theater as a profession (usually `the stage')
Example in sentence:
  • an early movie simply showed a long kiss by two actors of the contemporary stage
Meaning (4):
- a large platform on which people can stand and can be seen by an audience
Example in sentence:
  • he clambered up onto the stage and got the actors to help him into the box
Meaning (5):
- a section or portion of a journey or course
Example in sentence:
  • then we embarked on the second stage of our Caribbean cruise
Meaning (6):
- any distinct time period in a sequence of events
Example in sentence:
  • we are in a transitional stage in which many former ideas must be revised or rejected
Meaning (7):
- a large coach-and-four formerly used to carry passengers and mail on regular routes between towns
Example in sentence:
  • we went out of town together by stage about ten or twelve miles
8 . stage [ v]
Meaning (8):
- plan, organize, and carry out (an event)
Example in sentence:
  • the neighboring tribe staged an invasion
Meaning (9):
- perform (a play), especially on a stage
Example in sentence:
  • we are going to stage `Othello'

Nearby Words:

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