Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

stadial

/ˈsteɪdɪəl/

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.02 in modern English

Syllables: sta-di-al
IPA: /ˈsteɪdɪəl/

8

Scrabble Score

7

Letters

3

Syllables

6

Unique Chars

Meaning

adj

Pertaining to a glacial stade.

adj

Pertaining to or existing in successive stages of a given culture, society etc.

noun

A short, colder period within an interglacial; a stade.

Example Sentences

"He drew on the growing ethnographic record contained in travellers' tales about extra-European societies to develop a stadial view of human evolution according to which each society passed through the stages of hunting, pastoral life, farming, and trading – a schema which had no place for scriptural precept."

Etymology

From Latin stadiālis, from stadium.

Regional Pronunciation

British English: /ˈsteɪdɪəl/

Inflected Forms

more stadial (comparative) most stadial (superlative) stadials (plural)

Derived Forms

interstadial intrastadial stadialism stadialist stadially transstadial

Phrases

trans-stadial trans-stadially

Questions

How do you pronounce stadial?: The recorded pronunciation is /ˈsteɪdɪəl/.
What does stadial mean?: Pertaining to a glacial stade.
Where does stadial come from?: From Latin stadiālis, from stadium.

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