Crossword clues for amphitheater
The Collaborative International Dictionary
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.]
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An oval or circular building with rising tiers of seats about an open space called the arena.
Note: The Romans first constructed amphitheaters for combats of gladiators and wild beasts.
Anything resembling an amphitheater in form; as, a level surrounded by rising slopes or hills, or a rising gallery in a theater.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
late 14c., from Latin amphitheatrum, from Greek amphitheatron "double theater, amphitheater," neuter of amphitheatros "with spectators all around," from amphi- "on both sides" (see amphi-) + theatron "theater" (see theater). Classical theaters were semi-circles, thus two together made an amphi-theater.
Wiktionary
alt. 1 (context US English) A semi-circular acoustic backdrop behind performers for an outdoor venue. 2 (context historical English) A completely circular outdoor arena; a classic European amphitheatre. n. 1 (context US English) A semi-circular acoustic backdrop behind performers for an outdoor venue. 2 (context historical English) A completely circular outdoor arena; a classic European amphitheatre.
WordNet
n. a sloping gallery with seats for spectators (as in an operating room or theater) [syn: amphitheatre]
an oval large stadium with tiers of seats; an arena in which contests and spectacles are held [syn: amphitheatre, coliseum]
Usage examples of "amphitheater".
They filled every cuneus and maenianum of the amphitheater, from the best seats up to the hard ledges of the highest tier.
I think every seat in every cuneus and every maenianum of the amphitheater was filled.
Every other person in the amphitheater was similarly stupefied, absolutely silent.
The victims who could scream did so, others only burbled through the gashes in their necks or elsewhere, and those yet unassailed were bawling and bleating and trampling each other, trying to swarm higher along the tiers as the Blues hacked their way up one side of the amphitheater and the Greens up the other.
At any rate, not another person in the amphitheater was paying the least attention to us few in the podium.
There were also many armed soldiers running, not away from the amphitheater but toward it, to reinforce their comrades inside.
I stumbled and staggered around the outside walls of the amphitheater until I came to the doorway that Strabo and I and my guard had earlier entered.
Thrasamund has just completed the construction in Carthage of an amphitheater and a vast therma that, I hear, are the grandest in all Libya outside of Egypt.
Until then, the highborn Loo and their guards stay in the Concatenation amphitheater, bidding for various Acts.
Reflectively she threw away the energy, deflecting it out across the amphitheater in gigantic dragon tongues of destruction.
The amphitheater was a white inferno capped by a shield seething at maximum output.
Instantly rain slashed across the unprotected amphitheater, vaporizing where molten rock pooled sullenly.
She looked over her shoulder once, as though expecting the amphitheater to be filled again with the aristocracy of Loo, expected again to smell expensive perfumes and see Dapsl standing aside with his whip overflowing violent pain.
There it was: a discussion on Tyler Durden was scheduled in the amphitheater at 1600.
A flyer wearing red wings swooped over the amphitheater and soared back up again, slowly beating the air.