1. A raised and level floor or platform. 2. A raised platform on which theatrical performances are presented. 3. An area in which actors perform. 4. The stage is her life. 5. The scene of an event or a series of events. 6. A platform on a microscope that supports a slide for viewing. 7. A scaffold for workers. 8. A resting place on a journey, especially one providing overnight accommodations. 9. proceeded in easy stages. 10. A stagecoach. 11. A level or story of a building. 12. at flood stage. 13. the toddler stage. 14. too early to predict a winner at this stage. 15. One of two or more successive propulsion units of a rocket vehicle that fires after the preceding one has been jettisoned. 16. A subdivision in the classification of stratified rocks, ranking just below a series and representing rock formed during a chronological age. 17. An element or a group of elements in a complex arrangement of parts, especially a single tube or transistor and its accessory components in an amplifier. 18. stage a boxing match. 19. To produce or direct (a theatrical performance). 20. stage an invasion. 21. To be adaptable to or suitable for theatrical presentation. 22. Frederick Forsyth
