Definitions:

1. a large coach-and-four formerly used to carry passengers and mail on regular routes between towns noun
   • We went out of town together by stage about ten or twelve miles.
2. a large platform on which people can stand and can be seen by an audience noun
   • I clambered up onto the stage and got the actors to help me into the box.
3. a section or portion of a journey or course noun
   • Then we embarked on the second stage of our Caribbean cruise.
4. a small platform on a microscope where the specimen is mounted for examination noun
   • I placed the slide onto the stage of the microscope.
5. a specific identifiable position in a continuum, series, or especially in a process noun
   • The fourth stage in the manufacture of lamps requires argon.
6. any distinct time period in a sequence of events noun
   • We are in a transitional stage in which many former ideas must be revised or rejected.
7. any scene regarded as a setting for exhibiting or doing something noun
   • The city street is the stage for many arguments.
8. the theater as a profession, usually 'the stage' noun
   • An early movie simply showed a long kiss by two actors of the contemporary stage.
9. to intern at a restaurant, usually as a chef, to learn new techniques verb
   • I staged at the French Laundry.
10. to perform a play, especially on a stage verb
    • We are going to stage Othello.
11. to plan, organize, and carry out an event verb
    • The neighboring tribe staged an invasion.

Synonyms:

• arrange
• leg
• level
• microscope stage
• phase
• present
• stagecoach

NearBy Words:

• stage-struck
• stagecoach
• stagecraft
• staged
• stagehand
• stager
• stagey