Stadium vs Venue - What's the difference?
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A venue where sporting events are held.
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An ancient Greek race course, especially, the Olympic course for foot races.
A Greek measure of length, being the chief one used for itinerary distances, also adopted by the Romans for nautical and astronomical measurements, equal to 600 Greek or 625 Roman feet, or 125 Roman paces, or to 606 feet, 9 inches.
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A kind of telemeter for measuring the distance of an object of known dimensions, by observing the angle it subtends.
In surveying, a graduated rod used to measure the distance of the place where it stands from an instrument having a telescope, by observing the number of the graduations of the rod that are seen between certain parallel wires (stadia wires) in the field of view of the telescope.
A place, especially the one where a given event is to happen.
(legal) A neighborhood or near place; the place or county in which anything is alleged to have happened; also, the place where an action is laid.
* The twelve men who are to try the cause must be of the same venue where the demand is made. --.
(obsolete) A bout; a hit; a turn. See venew.
(sports) Sport venue: a stadium or similar building in which a sporting competition is held.
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, year=2011
, date=November 10
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, title= England Under 21 5 Iceland Under 21 0: match report
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Venue is a hyponym of stadium.
As nouns the difference between stadium and venue
is that stadium is a venue where sporting events are held while venue is a place, especially the one where a given event is to happen.stadium
English
(wikipedia stadium)Noun
(en-noun)Protests Widen as Brazilians Chide Leaders," New York Times (retrieved 21 June 2013):
- In a convulsion that has caught many in Brazil and beyond by surprise, waves of protesters denounced their leaders for dedicating so many resources to cultivating Brazil’s global image by building stadiums for international events, when basic services like education and health care remain woefully inadequate.
- Dionysiodorussent a letter ad superos after he was dead, from the centre of the earth, to signify what distance the same centre was from the superficies of the same, viz. 42,000 stadiums […].
Usage notes
* The alternative plural stadia is occasionally used, chiefly in high-register contexts.Synonyms
* (venue where sporting events are held) arena * (Greek unit of length) Olympic stadium * (graduated rod in surveying) stadia, stadia rodDerived terms
* stadia rod * stadia wireReferences
* English nouns with irregular plurals ----venue
English
(wikipedia venue)Noun
(en noun)citation, page= , passage=With such focus from within the footballing community this week on Remembrance Sunday, there was something appropriate about Colchester being the venue for last night’s game. Troops from the garrison town formed a guard of honour for both sets of players, who emerged for the national anthem with poppies proudly stitched into their tracksuit jackets.}}