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stade
noun as in coliseum
Strong matches
Weak match
Example Sentences
When England beat Canada 21-9 to win the 2014 World Cup there were 20,000 spectators inside the Stade Jean-Bouin in Paris.
The 29-year-old plays her club rugby in France for Stade Bordelais and is a livewire around the breakdown.
Saturday's crowd will surpass the 58,498 who watched England beat France at the same stadium in the 2023 Six Nations - the previous record for a XV-a-side match - and the 66,000 who watched the women's rugby sevens at Stade de France during the 2024 Olympics in Paris.
Saturday's crowd will surpass the 58,498 who watched England beat France at the same stadium in the 2023 Six Nations - the previous record for a 15-a-side match - and the 66,000 who watched the women's rugby sevens at Stade de France during the 2024 Olympics in Paris.
The 29-year-old scrum-half, the only French player to make World Rugby's 2024 team of the year, is serving a ban for criticising the officiating in the French domestic final, in which her Toulouse side lost to Stade Bordelais.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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