stadium

noun
🔊/ˈsteɪdiəm/
🔊/ˈsteɪdiəm/
(plural stadiums, stadia
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  1. a large sports ground surrounded by rows of seats and usually other buildings体育场;运动场
    • a football/sports stadium足球场;运动场
    • plans to build a new stadium计划建造一个新体育场
    • an all-seater stadium全座席体育场
    Extra Examples
    • The Reds are building a new stadium.红人队正在修建新体育场。
    • Thousands packed into the stadium to watch the final.数千人挤进体育场观看决赛。
    • the home stadium of the New York Giants纽约巨人队的主场体育场
    • It is a domed stadium with artificial turf.这是一个带有人造草皮的半球形体育场。
    • They're planning to turn the football ground into an all-seater stadium.他们正计划把足球场改建成全坐席体育场。
    • Thousands of football fans packed into the stadium to watch the game.数千足球迷涌进体育场看这场球赛。
    Topics Buildingsb1, Sports: ball and racket sportsb1
    Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadjective
    • packed
    • all-seater
    • indoor
    verb + stadium
    • fill
    • pack
    • pack into
    preposition
    • at a/​the stadium
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    Word Originlate Middle English (originally referring to an ancient Roman or Greek measure of length): via Latin from Greek stadion. The current sense dates from the mid 19th cent.