Definitions
1.NounA venue where sporting events are held."He is going for a cricket match at the stadium."
2.NounAn Ancient Greek racecourse, especially, the Olympic course for foot races.
3.NounSynonym of stadion, a Greek unit of length equivalent to about 185 m.
4.NounA kind of telemeter for measuring the distance of an object of known dimensions, by observing the angle it subtends.
5.NounA 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.
6.NounA life stage of an organism.