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Stadium Pronunciation
Stadium is pronounced STAY-dee-uhm, IPA /ˈsteɪdiəm/.
STAY-dee-uhm
US /ˈsteɪdiəm/ · UK /ˈsteɪdiəm/
Syllables: STAY · dee · uhm (3 syllables, stress on syllable 1)
noun: A large sports ground with banked seating around it.
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Stadium in a Sentence
- The stadium holds sixty thousand people.
- We walked to the stadium rather than queue for the tram.
- A new stadium is going up on the old gasworks site.
Common Mispronunciations of Stadium
Not STA-dee-uhm
STAY has to run its full length here, because a flat a gives the Latin stadia instead.
Not stay-DEE-uhm
Push hard on STAY and let dee-uhm run away quietly behind it.
Tip: Stadiums is the ordinary plural. Stadia is correct too and turns up mainly in sports writing.
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