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An oval large stadium with tiers of seats
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amphitheatre
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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
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chiefly British English spelling of amphitheater . See -er .
WordNet
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n. a sloping gallery with seats for spectators (as in an operating room or theater) [syn: amphitheater ] an oval large stadium with tiers of seats; an arena in which contests and spectacles are held [syn: amphitheater , coliseum ]
Wikipedia
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An amphitheatre or amphitheater is an open-air venue used for entertainment, performances, and sports. The term derives from the ancient Greek ἀμφιθέατρον ( amphitheatron ),ἀμφιθέατρον, Henry George Liddell, Robert Scott, '56'An Intermediate Greek-English ...
The Collaborative International Dictionary
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Amphitheater \Am`phi*the"a*ter\, Amphitheatre \Am`phi*the"a*tre\,, n. [L. amphitheatrum, fr. Gr. ?; ? + ? theater: cf. F. amphith['e ^a]tre. See Theater .] An oval or circular building with rising tiers of seats about an open space called the arena. ...
Wiktionary
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n. (context British English) An open, outdoor theatre, especially one from the classical period of ancient Greece.
Usage examples of amphitheatre.
In spite of the public calamity Nero continued to give games for the amusement of the populace, other rich men followed his example, and the sports of the amphitheatre were carried on on an even more extensive scale than before.
Their voices rose loud and clear in the silence of the amphitheatre, and there was neither pause nor waver in the tone as the entrance to one of the cages at the other end of the arena was opened, and a lion and a lioness appeared.
There was a dead stillness in the crowded amphitheatre, then there was a low sound as of gasping breath.
Moreover the Romans intensely admired feats of bravery, and that this captive should offer to face single handed an animal that was known to be one of the most powerful of those in the amphitheatre filled them with admiration.
You must have thought poorly of us yesterday that I was not at the exit from the amphitheatre to meet and thank you.
I saw nothing of the amphitheatre, nothing of the spectators, nothing but her, till, at the sudden shout from the crowd, I roused myself with a start.
Should you need an asylum, Aemilia, go to the house of a freedman, one Mincius, living in the third house on the right of a street known as the Narrow one, close behind the amphitheatre at the foot of the Palatine Hill, and knock thrice at the door.
While the populace gazed with stupid wonder on the splendid show, the naturalist might indeed observe the figure and properties of so many different species, transported from every part of the ancient world into the amphitheatre of Rome.
Posterity admires, and will long admire, the awful remains of the amphitheatre of Titus, which so well deserved the epithet of Colossal.
After a signal victory over the Franks and Alemanni, several of their princes were exposed by his order to the wild beasts in the amphitheatre of Treves, and the people seem to have enjoyed the spectacle, without discovering, in such a treatment of royal captives, anything that was repugnant to the laws of nations or of humanity.
A forest overspread the northern side of the Seine, but on the south, the ground, which now bears the name of the University, was insensibly covered with houses, and adorned with a palace and amphitheatre, baths, an aqueduct, and a field of Mars for the exercise of the Roman troops.
The pride of Corinth, again rising from her ruins with the honors of a Roman colony, exacted a tribute from the adjacent republics, for the purpose of defraying the games of the Isthmus, which were celebrated in the amphitheatre with the hunting of bears and panthers.
River Iris, rises on either side in the form of an amphitheatre, and represents on a smaller scale the image of Bagdad.
With some slight alterations, a theatre, an amphitheatre, a mausoleum, was transformed into a strong and spacious citadel.
The curious antiquaries, who have computed the numbers and seats, are disposed to believe, that above the upper row of stone steps the amphitheatre was encircled and elevated with several stages of wooden galleries, which were repeatedly consumed by fire, and restored by the emperors.