• a section or portion of a journey or course; "then we embarked on the second Stage of our Caribbean cruise"
• 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"--Shakespeare; "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"
• plan, organize, and carry out (an event)
• perform (a play), especially on a Stage; "we are going to Stage `Othello''"

'Stage' in other languages