(n)degree, level, stage, pointa specific identifiable position in a continuum or series or especially in a process“a remarkable degree of frankness”, “at what stage are the social sciences?”
(n)stagea large platform on which people can stand and can be seen by an audience“he clambered up onto the stage and got the actors to help him into the box”
(n)stagecoach, stagea large coach-and-four formerly used to carry passengers and mail on regular routes between towns“we went out of town together by stage about ten or twelve miles”
(n)stageany scene regarded as a setting for exhibiting or doing something“All the world's a stage” (Shakespeare), “it set the stage for peaceful negotiations”