stage definition

1. a large platform on which people can stand and can be seen by an audience
• examples: he clambered up onto the stage and got the actors to help him into the box
2. the theater as a profession (usually `the stage')
• examples: an early movie simply showed a long kiss by two actors of the contemporary stage
3. a large coach-and-four formerly used to carry passengers and mail on regular routes between towns
• examples: we went out of town together by stage about ten or twelve miles
4. a section or portion of a journey or course
• examples: then we embarked on the second stage of our Caribbean cruise
5. any scene regarded as a setting for exhibiting or doing something; --Shakespeare
• examples: All the world's a stage
• examples: it set the stage for peaceful negotiations
6. a small platform on a microscope where the specimen is mounted for examination
7. perform (a play), especially on a stage
• examples: we are going to stage `Othello'
8. plan, organize, and carry out (an event)
• examples: the neighboring tribe staged an invasion