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      "\u02c8ste\u026adi\u0259m"
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      "From Latin stadium (\u201ca measure of length, a race course\u201d) (commonly one-eighth of a Roman mile; translated in early English Bibles by furlong), from Ancient Greek \u03c3\u03c4\u03ac\u03b4\u03b9\u03bf\u03bd (st\u00e1dion, \u201ca measure of length, a running track\u201d), especially the track at Olympia, which was one stadium in length. The Greek word may literally mean \"fixed standard of length\" (from \u03c3\u03c4\u03ac\u03b4\u03b9\u03bf\u03c2 (st\u00e1dios, \u201cfirm, fixed\u201d), from Proto-Indo-European steh\u2082-, whence also stand and Latin stare). Doublet of stade, stadion, and estadio."
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            "mean": "A venue where sporting events are held.\n2013 June 18,  Simon Romero,  \u201cProtests Widen as Brazilians Chide Leaders\u201d, in  New York Times\u200e:In a convulsion that has caught many in Brazil and beyond by surprise, waves of protesters denounced their leaders for dedicating so many resources to cultivating Brazil\u2019s global image by building stadiums for international events, when basic services like education and health care remain woefully inadequate."
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            "mean": "An Ancient Greek racecourse, especially, the Olympic course for foot races."
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            "mean": "(historical) Synonym of stadion, a Greek unit of length equivalent to about 185 m.\n1624,  Democritus Junior ,  The Anatomy of Melancholy:\u00a0, 2nd edition, Oxford, Oxfordshire: Printed by John Lichfield and James Short, for Henry Cripps, \u2192OCLC, partition 2, section 2, member 3, page 245:Dionysiodorus  sent a letter ad superos after he was dead, from the centre of the earth, to signify what distance the same centre was from the superficies of the same, viz. 42,000 stadiums\u00a0  ."
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            "mean": "(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."
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