Stadium is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for STADIUM in dictionary:

NOUN:
• a race course, sports ground
• an athletic or sports ground with tiers of seats for spectators.
• (in ancient Rome or Greece) a track for a foot race or chariot race.
• an ancient Roman or Greek measure of length, about 185 metres (originally the length of a stadium).
• sports arena with tiered seats for spectators
• A Greek measure of length, being the chief one used for itinerary distances, also adopted by the Romans for nautical and astronomical measurements. It was equal to 600 Greek or 625 Roman feet, or 125 Roman paces, or to 606 feet 9 inches English. This was also called the Olympic stadium, as being the exact length of the foot-race course at Olympia.
• Hence, a race course; especially, the Olympic course for foot races.
• A kind of telemeter for measuring the distance of an object of known dimensions, by observing the angle it subtends; especially (Surveying), 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; -- also called stadia, and stadia rod.
• a large structure for open-air sports or entertainments
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• a structure in which athletic events are held

Words related to STADIUM

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Words that contain STADIUM

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How to use STADIUM in a sentence

• The walls of the stadium are hurled down, except an entrance of five arches of massive masonry, on the western side.
• In this manner on some fair morning, centuries ago, did all Greece wend its way to the Stadium and the Games of Olympia.
• Though the walls of the room could not be seen, there was a distinct feeling that the open space was huge-larger than a gymnasium, perhaps larger than a stadium.
• Many of them were adorned by magnificent public buildings, including a forum, theatre, stadium, hippodrome, and gymnasium.
• The plays in the theatres, the races in the hippodrome and stadium amazed and fascinated them.
• The marble Stadium, where the chariots raced and the gladiators fought, gleamed in the afternoon light.
• The classical city promoted play with careful solicitude, building the theater and stadium as it built the market place and the temple.
• So Belisarius, with difficulty and not without danger and great exertion, made his way over ground covered by ruins and half-burned buildings, and ascended to the stadium.
• There is also a most graceful arch remaining to mark the entrance to the ancient stadium, of which nothing else now remains.
• It has been called a small fort, an amphitheatre, a stadium, and several other things.
• A little farther on is the Stadium, with an arena over five hundred and eighty feet long, and one hundred and nine feet wide.
• It stands in a vineyard not farther than a stadium from the walls of the town and belongs to a lawyer, Villena, citizen of Valladolid, and very learned in the science of law.
• And therefore if you want to see Crison and me in the same stadium, you must bid him slacken his speed to mine, for I cannot run quickly, and he can run slowly.

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