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Greek concert hall
Answer for the clue "Greek concert hall ", 5 letters:
odeum
Alternative clues for the word odeum
Word definitions for odeum in dictionaries
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Odeum \O*de"um\, n. [L.] See Odeon .
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"concert hall," c.1600, from Latin odeum , from Greek odeion , the name of a public building in Athens designed for musical performances, from oide "song" (see ode ).
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. (alternative form of odeon English)
Usage examples of odeum.
A rear patio as large as the odeum emptied to the rolling lawn and widely spaced birch trees walled by a twelve-foot-tall ficus hedge.
Heraclius asked if Menandros cared to attend the gladiatorial games the following week, said a sketchy thing or two about his Etruscan ancestors and their religious beliefs, of which he claimed to be a student of sorts, and spoke briefly of some idiotic Greek play that had been presented at the Odeum of Agrippa Ligurinus the week before.
A Pelasgic wall extends as a boundary-wall below the Aesculapieum, then onward at about the same level until interrupted by the Odeum of Herodes Atticus.