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A naval spectacle
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naumachia
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n. (context nautical in Ancient Rome English) The recreation of sea battles in a river basin (or also a flooded amphitheater)
WordNet
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n. a naval spectacle; a mock sea battle put on by the ancient Romans [syn: naumachy ] [also: naumachiae (pl)]
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The naumachia (in Latin naumachia , from the Ancient Greek ναυμαχία/ naumachía , literally "naval combat") in the Ancient Roman word referred to both the staging of naval battles as mass entertainment and the basin (or more broadly, the complex) in which ...
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Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Nauheim bath \Nauheim bath\, etc. [Webster 1913 Suppl.] naumachia \naumachia\ n. Same as naumachy .