English dictionary
stage
nounPronunciation
steɪd͡ʒ
Audio pronunciation
Parts of speech
Definitions
noun
- a section or portion of a journey or course
noun
- a large platform on which people can stand and can be seen by an audience
noun
- a small platform on a microscope where the specimen is mounted for examination
noun
- a large coach-and-four formerly used to carry passengers and mail on regular routes between towns
noun
- the theater as a profession (usually ‘the stage’)
noun
- any scene regarded as a setting for exhibiting or doing something
noun
- a specific identifiable position in a continuum or series or especially in a process
noun
- any distinct time period in a sequence of events
verb
- plan, organize, and carry out (an event)
verb
- perform (a play), especially on a stage
Example sentences
then we embarked on the second stage of our Caribbean cruise
he clambered up onto the stage and got the actors to help him into the box
we went out of town together by stage about ten or twelve miles
an early movie simply showed a long kiss by two actors of the contemporary stage
{'source': 'Shakespeare', 'text': "All the world's a stage"}
it set the stage for peaceful negotiations
a remarkable degree of frankness
at what stage are the social sciences?
we are in a transitional stage in which many former ideas must be revised or rejected
the neighboring tribe staged an invasion
we are going to stage ‘Othello’