əˈɹeɪndʒ dɪˈɡɹiː lɛɡ ˈlɛv.əl feɪz ɹɛp.ɹɪ.ˈzɛnt steɪd͡ʒ steɪd͡ʒ a section or portion of a journey or course then we embarked on the second stage of our Caribbean cruise plan, organize, and carry out (an event) the neighboring tribe staged an invasion perform (a play), especially on a stage we are going to stage ‘Othello’ a 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 a small platform on a microscope where the specimen is mounted for examination a 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 the theater as a profession (usually ‘the stage’) an early movie simply showed a long kiss by two actors of the contemporary stage any scene regarded as a setting for exhibiting or doing something All the world's a stage it set the stage for peaceful negotiations a 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? any distinct time period in a sequence of events we are in a transitional stage in which many former ideas must be revised or rejected