Definition of "stade"

(historical) Synonym of stadion: a former Greek unit of distance (variously 150–210 m at different places and times).

(dated) A track for footraces and its surrounding stadium.  examples

A stage of progress

1. (obsolete) in a journey.

2. (medicine, obsolete) of a disease.

3. (geology) in glaciation during which a secondary advance of the glaciers occurs.

(historical) A unit of length notionally based on the height of a grown man, equivalent to a fathom.

(units of measure, obsolete) Synonym of estadio: a traditional Spanish unit of measure equivalent to about 1.67 m.

(rare, obsolete) A chief town in an area or country.

(obsolete) Fabric or textiles from or similar to those of Stade.

(nautical, obsolete) A station for ships, as an anchorage or wharf.