stadial
/ˈsteɪdɪəl/adjective, noun
stadial is an adjective meaning “Pertaining to a glacial stade” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled S-T-A-D-I-A-L, and it appears about once in every 95 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data).
What does stadial mean?
adjective
- 1
Pertaining to a glacial stade.
- 2
Pertaining to or existing in successive stages of a given culture, society etc.
noun
- 1
A short, colder period within an interglacial; a stade.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you pronounce stadial?
- UK /ˈsteɪdɪəl/
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Vealhurl-stadial.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Forms of stadial
- more stadial comparative
- most stadial superlative
- stadials plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is stadial?
Stadial appears about once in every 95 million words in written English, the 313,259th most frequent word form in the list.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
Where does stadial come from?
From Latin stadiālis, from stadium.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).