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); "the neighboring tribe staged an invasion"
a section or portion of a journey or course; "then we embarked on the second stage of our Caribbean cru