[1] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

stage \stage\ st=aj, n. of. estage, f. 'etage, assumed
   ll. staticum, from l. stare to stand. see stand, and cf.
   static.
   1. a floor or story of a house. obs. --wyclif.
      1913 webster

   2. an elevated platform on which an orator may speak, a play
      be performed, an exhibition be presented, or the like.
      1913 webster

   3. a floor elevated for the convenience of mechanical work,
      or the like; a scaffold; a staging.
      1913 webster

   4. a platform, often floating, serving as a kind of wharf.
      1913 webster

   5. the floor for scenic performances; hence, the theater; the
      playhouse; hence, also, the profession of representing
      dramatic compositions; the drama, as acted or exhibited.
      1913 webster

            knights, squires, and steeds, must enter on the
            stage.                                --pope.
      1913 webster

            lo where the stage, the poor, degraded stage,
            holds its warped mirror to a gaping age. --c.
                                                  sprague.
      1913 webster

   6. a place where anything is publicly exhibited; the scene of
      any noted action or career; the spot where any remarkable
      affair occurs; as, politicians must live their lives on
      the public stage.
      1913 webster +pjc

            when we are born, we cry that we are come
            to this great stage of fools.         --shak.
      1913 webster

            music and ethereal mirth
            wherewith the stage of air and earth did ring.
                                                  --miton.
      1913 webster

   7. the platform of a microscope, upon which an object is
      placed to be viewed. see illust. of microscope.
      1913 webster

   8. a place of rest on a regularly traveled road; a stage
      house; a station; a place appointed for a relay of horses.
      1913 webster

   9. 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; as, a stage
      of ten miles.
      1913 webster

            a stage . . . signifies a certain distance on a
            road.                                 --jeffrey.
      1913 webster

            he traveled by gig, with his wife, his favorite
            horse performing the journey by easy stages.
                                                  --smiles.
      1913 webster

   10. a degree of advancement in any pursuit, or of progress
       toward an end or result.
       1913 webster

             such a polity is suited only to a particular stage
             in the progress of society.          --macaulay.
       1913 webster

   11. a large vehicle running from station to station for the
       accommodation of the public; a stagecoach; an omnibus. "a
       parcel sent you by the stage." --cowper. obsolescent
       1913 webster

             i went in the sixpenny stage.        --swift.
       1913 webster

   12. biol. one of several marked phases or periods in the
       development and growth of many animals and plants; as,
       the larval stage; pupa stage; zoea stage.
       1913 webster

   stage box, a box close to the stage in a theater.

   stage carriage, a stagecoach.

   stage door, the actors' and workmen's entrance to a
      theater.

   stage lights, the lights by which the stage in a theater is
      illuminated.

   stage micrometer, a graduated device applied to the stage
      of a microscope for measuring the size of an object.

   stage wagon, a wagon which runs between two places for
      conveying passengers or goods.

   stage whisper, a loud whisper, as by an actor in a theater,
      supposed, for dramatic effect, to be unheard by one or
      more of his fellow actors, yet audible to the audience; an
      aside.
      1913 webster
see also:
stand static microscope stage box stage carriage stage door 
stage lights stage micrometer stage wagon stage whisper 

[2] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

stage \stage\ st=aj, v. t.
   to exhibit upon a stage, or as upon a stage; to display
   publicly. --shak.
   1913 webster

[3] : WordNet (r) 2.0

stage
     n 1: 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" syn: phase
     2: 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?" syn:
         degree, level, point
     3: a large platform on which people can stand and can be seen
        by an audience; "he clambered up onto the stage and got
        the actors to help him into the box"
     4: the theater as a profession usually `the stage'; "an early
        movie simply showed a long kiss by two actors of the
        contemporary stage"
     5: any scene regarded as a setting for exhibiting or doing
        something; "all the world's a stage"--shakespeare; "it set
        the stage for peaceful negotiations"
     6: 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" syn: stagecoach
     7: a section or portion of a journey or course; "then we
        embarked on the second stage of our caribbean cruise"
        syn: leg
     8: a small platform on a microscope where the specimen is
        mounted for examination syn: microscope stage
     v 1: perform a play, especially on a stage; "we are going to
          stage `othello'" syn: present, represent
     2: plan, organize, and carry out an event syn: bring about,
         arrange
see also:
phase degree level point stagecoach leg 
microscope stage present represent bring about arrange 

[4] : Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0

284 moby thesaurus words for "stage":
   broadway, l, r, acting, acting area, agora, amphitheater, apron,
   apron stage, arena, athletic field, auditorium, autobus, back,
   backdrop, background, backstage, balcony, band, band shell,
   bandstand, be a gas, be a hit, bear garden, bed, bedding, belt,
   bill, board, boards, bomb, bowl, boxing ring, bridge, bring out,
   bull ring, burlesque, bus, cab, campus, canvas, carnival, caste,
   catafalque, chartered bus, circus, class, cockpit, coliseum,
   colosseum, concoct, condition, contrive, couche, coulisse, course,
   dais, day, deck, devise, diligence, distance, division, do, dock,
   double-decker, drama, dramatize, dressing room, echafaudage,
   echelon, emplacement, entertainment industry, estrade, execute,
   exhibit, fail, fake, fateful moment, feature, field, flies, floor,
   flop, fly floor, fly gallery, footing, footlights, forestage,
   forum, gallery, give, grade, greenroom, grid, gridiron, ground,
   gym, gymnasium, hack, hall, headline, heliport, hierarchy,
   hinterland, hippodrome, hired car, hour, hustings, instant,
   interval, jitney, juncture, kairos, landing, landing pad,
   landing stage, lap, launching pad, layer, ledge, legit,
   legitimate stage, level, lightboard, lists, locale, mail coach,
   make a hit, make up, manipulate, marketplace, mat, measures,
   melodramatize, milieu, minute, mise-en-scene, moment,
   moment of truth, motor coach, motorbus, mount, notch, off broadway,
   off-off-broadway, omnibus, open, open a show, open forum,
   orchestra, orchestra pit, order, organize, originate, overlayer,
   overstory, palaestra, parade ground, perform, performing area,
   period, phase, pit, place, platform, play, playland, podium, point,
   position, post coach, power structure, precedence, precinct,
   pregnant moment, premiere, present, preview, prize ring, produce,
   proscenium, proscenium stage, psychological moment, public square,
   pulpit, purlieu, put on, range, rank, rate, rating, rear,
   repertory drama, ring, rostrum, rung, scaffold, scaffolding,
   scenarize, scene, scene of action, scenery, seam, season,
   set the stage, setting, shelf, shell, show, show biz,
   show business, site, situation, soapbox, space, span, spell,
   sphere, spot, squared circle, stadium, stage left, stage right,
   stage set, stage setting, stage world, stagecoach, stagedom,
   stageland, staging, standing, star, station, status, step,
   step terrace, stock, story, stratum, strawhat, strawhat circuit,
   stretch, stump, substratum, succeed, summer stock, superstratum,
   switchboard, taxi, taxicab, terrace, terrain, the boards,
   the footlights, the scenes, the stage, the theater, theater,
   theater world, theatricalize, theatromania, theatrophobia,
   thickness, tier, tilting ground, tiltyard, time, time lag, topsoil,
   tribunal, tribune, trump up, try out, underlayer, understory,
   understratum, variety, vaudeville, walk, while, wings,
   wrestling ring, zone

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