stade
/steɪd/
noun
- An ancient Greek unit of length, equal to about 185 meters (607 feet), used for measuring distances.
- The ancient stadium was one stade long, which is where the word 'stadium' comes from.
- A stade was roughly the length of a footrace in the original Olympic Games.
- Herodotus wrote that the distance from one city to another was 100 stades.