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Definitions of stage:

noun: a section or portion of a journey or course
Example: "Then we embarked on the second stage of our Caribbean cruise"
noun: a large platform on which people can stand and can be seen by an audience
Example: "He clambered up onto the stage and got the actors to help him into the box"
noun: a small platform on a microscope where the specimen is mounted for examination
noun: the theater as a profession (usually `the stage')
Example: "An early movie simply showed a long kiss by two actors of the contemporary stage"
noun: any scene regarded as a setting for exhibiting or doing something
Example: "All the world's a stage--Shakespeare"
noun: a large coach-and-four formerly used to carry passengers and mail on regular routes between towns
Example: "We went out of town together by stage about ten or twelve miles"
noun: any distinct time period in a sequence of events
Example: "We are in a transitional stage in which many former ideas must be revised or rejected"
noun: a specific identifiable position in a continuum or series or especially in a process
Example: "At what stage are the social sciences?"
verb: plan, organize, and carry out (an event)
verb: perform (a play), especially on a stage
Example: "We are going to stage `Othello'"
name: A surname (rare: 1 in 100000 families; popularity rank in the U.S.: #11446)

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Words and phrases that have a meaning related to stage: (381 results)
Synonyms:
arrange, bring about, degree, leg, level, microscope stage, phase, point, present, stagecoach

Contains:
left stage, right stage, stage left, stage right

Part of:
house, journeying, journey, theater, theatre

More general:
amount of time, coach, coach-and-four, dramatic art, dramatics, dramaturgy, four-in-hand, initiate, period, period of time, pioneer, platform, re-create, scene, state, time period, travel, traveling, travelling

More specific:
acme, apogee, cast, chapter, climax, culmination, diakinesis, diplotene, elevation, end point, extent, fare-stage, forestage, height, leptotene, localize, luteal phase, menstrual phase, mise en scene, pachytene, peak, phase of cell division, pinnacle, place, plane, proscenium, quickening, resultant, safe period, secretory phase, seedtime, set, setting, stage setting, standard of life, standard of living, state of the art, summit, superlative, theater stage, theatre stage, top, ultimacy, ultimateness, wing, zygotene

Often used in the same context:
drama, fans, lights, staging

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