different between metres vs stadion

English

Noun

metres

1. plural of metre

Verb

metres

1. Third-person singular simple present indicative form of metre

Anagrams

• Emerts, Mester, S meter, Tesmer, merest, mester, meters, restem, termes

Catalan

Noun

metres

1. plural of metre

Turkish

Etymology

Borrowed from French maîtresse.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /m?t???s/
• Hyphenation: met?res

Noun

metres (definite accusative metresi, plural metresler)

1. mistress; a female partner in an extramarital relationship, generally including sexual relations.

Declension

Synonyms

• dost, zamazingo (slang), kapama, kapatma

English

Etymology

From Ancient Greek ??????? (stádion).

Noun

stadion (plural stadia)

1. A Greek unit of measurement, equivalent to six plethra or six hundred podes, which, though varying in precise length, is generally accepted to be equivalent to approximately 185·4 metres.
   • 1883: Franz von Reber (translated by Joseph Thacher Clarke), History of ancient art, p257 (S. Low…)

     The stadion did not suffice for the races of horses and chariots which had been favorites with the Greeks since the Trojan war.

   • 1993: David Gilman Romano, Athletics and Mathematics in Archaic Corinth: The Origins of the Greek Stadion, p1 (Diane Publishing Co.; ?ISBN (10), ?ISBN (13))

     The stadion was used specifically for human athletic contests whereas the Greek hippodrome and later the Roman circus were used for equestrian events. The gymnasion and the palaistra were used for training purposes for human athletic events.

   • 2001: Edward Seldon Sears, Running Through the Ages, p26 (McFarland, ?ISBN

     Stadion Race (200 meters)
     

     ??The winner of the Stadion race could justifiably be called the fastest man in the Greek world. According to legend, Herakles, whose feet were 0·32 meters (12·7 inches) long, stepped-off the Stadion at Olympia. Since he chose a distance of 600 “feet”, this made the race at Olympia 192 meters. Herakles staged a race for his brothers, the Kouretes, and crowned the victor with a branch of wild olive. Although the Greek Stadion race was always 600 feet, other Greek gods had “feet” of different lengths. This caused the length of the Stadion race to vary slightly from stadium to stadium. This list of Olympic victors compiled by Hippias in about 400 B.C. lists the Stadion race as the only event in the first 13 Olympic games. Coreobus of Elis, a cook, was the victor in the Stadion race in 776 B.C. and thus the first recorded Olympic victor.

Translations

Related terms

• stadium

Anagrams

• adonist, dations

Czech

Alternative forms

• stadión m

Noun

stadion m

1. stadium (venue where sporting events are held)

Declension

Danish

Noun

stadion n (definite singular stadionet, indefinite plural stadioner / stadions, definite plural stadionerne)

1. a stadium (sporting venue)

Dutch

Pronunciation

• Hyphenation: sta?di?on

Noun

stadion n (plural stadions, diminutive stadionnetje n)

1. (sports) stadium, arena

Finnish

Etymology

From Ancient Greek ??????? (stádion).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?st?dion/, [?s?t??dio?n]
• Rhymes: -?dion
• Syllabification: sta?di?on

Noun

stadion

1. (sports) stadium
2. stadion (unit of measure)

Declension

Synonyms

• (sports stadium): kilpola (rare, dated)

Anagrams

• sidonta, sidotan

Hungarian

Etymology

From German Stadion (“stadium”), from Ancient Greek ??????? (stádion).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [??t?dijon]
• Hyphenation: sta?di?on
• Rhymes: -on

Noun

stadion (plural stadionok)

1. stadium (venue where sporting events are held)

Declension

Derived terms

• labdarúgó-stadion

References

Further reading

• stadion in Bárczi, Géza and László Országh: A magyar nyelv értelmez? szótára (’The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language’). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: ?ISBN

Norwegian Bokmål

Noun

stadion n (definite singular stadionet, indefinite plural stadion / stadioner, definite plural stadiona / stadionene)

1. a stadium (sporting venue)

Norwegian Nynorsk

Noun

stadion n (definite singular stadionet, indefinite plural stadion, definite plural stadiona)

1. a stadium (sporting venue)

Polish

Etymology

From Ancient Greek ???????? (stádion).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?stad.j?n/

Noun

stadion m inan

1. (sports) stadium

Declension

Further reading

• stadion in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from German Stadion.

Noun

stadion n (plural stadioane)

1. stadium (venue where sporting events are held)

Declension

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

From Ancient Greek ??????? (stádion).

Noun

st?di?n m (Cyrillic spelling ?????????)

1. (sports) stadium
2. (unit of measure) stadion

Declension

Swedish

Noun

stadion n or c (definite singular stadion, indefinite plural stadion, definite plural stadion)

1. a stadium (sporting venue)