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stage is a noun and verb meaning "any distinct time period in a sequence of events". It carries 10 recorded senses.
any distinct time period in a sequence of events
“we are in a transitional stage in which many former ideas must be revised or rejected”
a specific identifiable position in a continuum or series or especially in a process
“a remarkable degree of frankness”
“at what stage are the social sciences?”
the theater as a profession (usually `the stage')
“an early movie simply showed a long kiss by two actors of the contemporary stage”
a large coach-and-four formerly used to carry passengers and mail on regular routes between towns
“we went out of town together by stage about ten or twelve miles”
a section or portion of a journey or course
“then we embarked on the second stage of our Caribbean cruise”
any scene regarded as a setting for exhibiting or doing something
“All the world's a stage”
“it set the stage for peaceful negotiations”
a small platform on a microscope where the specimen is mounted for examination
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for stage come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.