stadial
English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Latin stadiālis, from stadium.
Pronunciation[edit]
Adjective[edit]
stadial (comparative more stadial, superlative most stadial)
- (geology) Pertaining to a glacial stade.
- (archaeology, sociology) Pertaining to or existing in successive stages of a given culture, society etc.
- 2002, Colin Jones, The Great Nation, Penguin 2003, p. 188:
- He drew on the growing ethnographic record contained in travellers' tales about extra-European societies to develop a stadial view of human evolution according to which each society passed through the stages of hunting, pastoral life, farming and trading – a schema which had no place for scriptural precept.
- 2002, Colin Jones, The Great Nation, Penguin 2003, p. 188:
Derived terms[edit]
Noun[edit]
stadial (plural stadials)
- (geology) A short, colder period within an interglacial; a stade.