Crossword clues for hemicycle
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Hemicycle \Hem"i*cy`cle\, n. [L. hemicyclus, Gr. ?; ? + ky`klos.]
A half circle; a semicircle.
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A semicircular place, as a semicircular arena, or room, or part of a room.
The collections will be displayed in the hemicycle of the central pavilion.
--London Academy.
Wiktionary
n. 1 semicircle 2 (context architecture English) A semicircular structure
WordNet
n. a plane figure with the shape of half a circle [syn: semicircle]
Wikipedia
In legislatures, a hemicycle is a semicircular, or horseshoe-shaped, debating chamber (plenary chamber), where deputies (members) sit to discuss and pass legislation. Though composed of Greek roots, the term is French in origin.
Usage examples of "hemicycle".
On the stage all was silence, but a murmur like the humming of bees in a hive rose from the vast hemicycle filled with spectators.
There, on the bench of the marble hemicycle in the north grove, sat a row of graybeards, old men in the costume of the first Revolution, a sort of serene and benignant Areopagus.
Of course there was a mossy stone hemicycle not far off, and cracked benches with griffins feet, where one might sit and gossip and watch the lizards scamper in the sun.
Their courtly coffins are ranged in a kind of hemicycle, with the little coffins of the children that died before they came to the knowledge of their greatness.
It is neither adossed to a hill nor completely isolated: the lower part of the hemicycle of steps which was completely buried, is well preserved.
The closing together and bracing of which hemicycle or arch, worthie of admiration, of a rare and subtile deuise, and exquisite polyture, did thus obiect and present it selfe to my sight.
Above the conchs of the small apses rise the two great semi-domes which cover the hemicycles, and between these bursts out the vast dome over the central square.