stage

English Online Dictionary. What means stage‎? What does stage mean?

English

Etymology 1

From Middle English stage, from Old French estage (“dwelling, residence; position, situation, condition”), from Old French ester (“to be standing, be located”). Cognate with Old English stæþþan (“to make staid, stay”), Old Norse steðja (“to place, provide, confirm, allow”), Old English stede (“state, status, standing, place, station, site”). More at stead. Doublet of étage.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /steɪd͡ʒ/
• Rhymes: -eɪdʒ

Noun

stage (plural stages)

1. A phase.
2. (by extension) One of the portions of a device (such as a rocket or thermonuclear weapon) which are used or activated in a particular order, one after another.

4. (theater) A platform; a surface, generally elevated, upon which show performances or other public events are given.
5. A floor or storey of a house.
6. A floor elevated for the convenience of mechanical work, etc.; scaffolding; staging.
7. A platform, often floating, serving as a kind of wharf.
9. A stagecoach, an enclosed horsedrawn carriage used to carry passengers; the service that such coaches provide; a company that operates such service.
11. (dated) A place of rest on a regularly travelled road; a station, way station; a place appointed for a relay of horses.
12. (dated) A degree of advancement in a journey; one of several portions into which a road or course is marked off; the distance between two places of rest on a road.
13. (electronics) The number of an electronic circuit’s block, such as a filter, an amplifier, etc.

14. The place on a microscope where the slide is located for viewing.

15. (video games) A level; one of the sequential areas making up the game.

    Synonym: level

16. A place where anything is publicly exhibited, or a remarkable affair occurs; the scene.
18. (geology) The succession of rock strata laid down in a single age on the geologic time scale.
19. (Canada, Quebec) An internship.
20. The notional space within which stereo sounds are positioned, determining where they will appear to come from when played back.
21. (metonymic, uncountable, with "the") The profession of an actor.

Synonyms

• (phase): tier, level
• (video games): level, map, area, world, track, board, zone, phase

Derived terms

Descendants

• → Japanese: ステージ (sutēji)

Translations

Verb

stage (third-person singular simple present stages, present participle staging, simple past and past participle staged)

1. (transitive) To produce on a stage, to perform a play.

2. To demonstrate in a deceptive manner.

3. (transitive) To orchestrate; to carry out.
4. (transitive) To place in position to prepare for use.

5. (transitive, medicine) To determine what stage (a disease, etc.) has progressed to
6. (astronautics) To jettison a spent stage of a multistage rocket or other launch vehicle and light the engine(s) of the stage above it.

7. (intransitive, Canada, US) To work an internship, usually as a chef or waiter.

Synonyms

• (demonstrate in a deceptive manner): fake

Derived terms

• hot-stage

Translations

Etymology 2

Borrowed from French stage (“internship”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /stɑːʒ/
• Rhymes: -ɑːʒ

Noun

stage (plural stages)

1. (cooking) An unpaid internship in a restaurant where a cook or chef is exposed to new culinary techniques.

Related terms

• stagiaire

Verb

stage (third-person singular simple present stages, present participle staging, simple past and past participle staged)

1. (intransitive, cooking) To work as an unpaid intern in a restaurant.

Anagrams

• Gates, Geats, agest, e-tags, gates, geats, getas

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from French stage. Doublet of etage.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈstaː.ʒə/
• Hyphenation: sta‧ge

Noun

stage m (plural stages, diminutive stagetje n)

1. probation, induction
2. apprenticeship
3. internship

Derived terms

Related terms

• stagiair

Descendants

• → Indonesian: stase
• → Papiamentu: stazje

French

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Medieval Latin stagium, itself from Old French estage: ester +‎ -age (whence modern French étage).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /staʒ/

Noun

stage m (plural stages)

1. internship, job that a trainee is doing in a workplace until a fixed date

   rapport de stage ― internship report, training period report
2. probation, induction

Related terms

• stagiaire

Descendants

Further reading

• “stage”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Anagrams

• gâtes, gâtés

Italian

Etymology 1

Borrowed from French stage.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sˈtaʒ/
• Rhymes: -aʒ

Noun

stage m (invariable)

1. internship, stagiaire

   Synonyms: apprendistato, tirocinio, praticantato

Usage notes

Often incorrectly pronounced IPA^(key): /sˈte.id͡ʒ/ or IPA^(key): /sˈtɛ.id͡ʒ/ via an erroneous connection to English stage.

Etymology 2

Unadapted borrowing from English stage.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sˈte.id͡ʒ/, /sˈtɛ.id͡ʒ/
• Rhymes: -eidʒ, -ɛidʒ

Noun

stage m (invariable)

1. (theater) stage

   Synonyms: palco, palcoscenico

References

Anagrams

• gesta

Middle English

Etymology

From Old French estage, from ester (“to be standing, be located”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈstaːdʒ(ə)/

Noun

stage (plural stages or stage)

1. A tier of a structure; a floor or storey:
   1. The topmost story of a building; a rooftop.
   2. A deck (surface of a ship)
   3. A floor of a vehicle or on a mount.
2. A raised floor; a platform or podium.
   1. A ledge or shelf (projecting storage platform)
   2. A stage; a platform facing the audience.
   3. A box seat; a premium seat for an audience member.
3. A duration or period; an amount of time.
4. A stage or phase; a sequential part.
5. A tier or grade; a place in a hierarchy.
6. A locale or place; a specified point in space.
7. Heaven (home of (the Christian) God)
8. (rare) The cross-beam of a window.
9. (rare) A seat or chair.
10. (rare) A state of being.

Derived terms

• forstage

Descendants

• English: stage

References

• “stāǧe, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2020-01-12.