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stages definition and meaning

n. A floor or story of a house.
n. An elevated platform on which an orator may speak, a play be performed, an exhibition be presented, or the like.
n. A floor elevated for the convenience of mechanical work, or the like; a scaffold; a staging.
n. A platform, often floating, serving as a kind of wharf.
n. The floor for scenic performances; hence, the theater; the playhouse; hence, also, the profession of representing dramatic compositions; the drama, as acted or exhibited.
n. A place where anything is publicly exhibited; the scene of any noted action or carrer; the spot where any remarkable affair occurs.
n. The platform of a microscope, upon which an object is placed to be viewed. See Illust. of Microscope.
n. A place of rest on a regularly traveled road; a stage house; a station; a place appointed for a relay of horses.
n. 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.
n. A degree of advancement in any pursuit, or of progress toward an end or result.
n. A large vehicle running from station to station for the accomodation of the public; a stagecoach; an omnibus.
n. 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.
v. t. To exhibit upon a stage, or as upon a stage; to display publicly.

Crossword clues for stages

- Part of a process
- Period of growth
- Phase
- Platform
- Platform gets a makeover
- Point of development
- Put on (a play)
- Put on (show)
- Put on a show
- Raised platform
- Step
- Theatre platform
- Acting platforms
- Old coaches going through phases
- Organises and carries out an event
- Periods of growth
- Phases
- Puts on show
- Raised platforms