Definition of Stadium

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Stadium

A modern structure, with its inclosure, resembling the ancient stadium, used for athletic games, etc.

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.

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Stadium Quotations

My office is at Yankee stadium. Yes, dreams do come true.
Derek Jeter

My hero's, my dreams, and my future lie in Yankee Stadium and they can't take that from me.
Derek Jeter

To play 18 years in Yankee Stadium is the best thing that could ever happen to a ballplayer.
Mickey Mantle

San Francisco has always been my favorite booing city. I don't mean the people boo louder or longer, but there is a very special intimacy. When they boo you, you know they mean you. Music, that's what it is to me. One time in Kezar Stadium they gave me a standing boo.
George Halas

Our stadium seats over 80,000, and we sell all of our tickets.
Steve Spurrier

You can spend the money on new housing for poor people and the homeless, or you can spend it on a football stadium or a golf course.
Jello Biafra

In the building I live in on Park Avenue there are ten people who could buy the Yankees, but none of them could hit the ball out of Yankee Stadium.
Reggie Jackson

That smell of freshly cut grass makes me think of Friday night football in high school. The smell of popcorn and cigar smoke reminds me of the stadium. The cutting of the grass reminds me of the August practice.
Garth Brooks

Secrecy is thus, so to speak, a transition stadium between being and not-being.
Georg Simmel

I'm proud of the fact that I'm the only player to hit a ball completely out of Dodger Stadium.
Willie Stargell

Stadium Translations

stadium in Dutch is stadie, etappe, overnachtingsplaats
stadium in German is Stadion
stadium in Hungarian is stadion
stadium in Italian is stadio
stadium in Spanish is estadio

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