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# How to pronounce "stadial" in English

## Pronunciation & Phonetics

- **IPA**: `/ˈsteɪdɪəl/`
- **Syllable Breakdown**: **sta·di·al**
- **Stress**: **STA** — say this syllable louder and longer
- **Native Audio**: [Listen](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/a/ad/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-stadial.wav/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-stadial.wav.mp3)

## Meaning & Usage

### ADJECTIVE
- Pertaining to a glacial stade.
- Pertaining to or existing in successive stages of a given culture, society etc.
  - *Example*: "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."

### NOUN
- A short, colder period within an interglacial; a stade.

### Example Sentences
- "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."

## Video Examples

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## How to Pronounce "stadial"

- **Syllables**: sta · di · al
- **Stress**: STA — say this syllable louder and longer
- **IPA**: `/ˈsteɪdɪəl/`
- **Listen for**: the stressed /STA/ in the pronunciation — notice how the vowel sound is clearly emphasized.

## Related Words

### Word Forms
[stadially](https://sayitvid.com/pronounce/stadially), [stadialist](https://sayitvid.com/pronounce/stadialist), [stadialism](https://sayitvid.com/pronounce/stadialism)

### Related Terms
[interstadial](https://sayitvid.com/pronounce/interstadial), [transstadial](https://sayitvid.com/pronounce/transstadial)


## Related Pronunciations

[stadia](https://sayitvid.com/pronounce/stadia), [stadda](https://sayitvid.com/pronounce/stadda), [stadially](https://sayitvid.com/pronounce/stadially), [stadion](https://sayitvid.com/pronounce/stadion), [stadium](https://sayitvid.com/pronounce/stadium), [sta](https://sayitvid.com/pronounce/sta), [staas](https://sayitvid.com/pronounce/staas), [stab](https://sayitvid.com/pronounce/stab)

## Frequently Asked Questions

### How do you pronounce “stadial”?
“stadial” is pronounced /ˈsteɪdɪəl/ (sta · di · al). Listen to the audio pronunciation above to hear it spoken clearly.

### How many syllables are in “stadial”?
“stadial” has 3 syllables: sta · di · al.

### Where is the stress in “stadial”?
The primary stress in “stadial” is on “STA”.

### What does “stadial” mean?
Pertaining to a glacial stade.


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