Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun See
amphitheater .
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- noun UK An
open ,outdoor theatre , especially one from theclassical period ofancient Greece .
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- noun an oval large stadium with tiers of seats; an arena in which contests and spectacles are held
- noun a sloping gallery with seats for spectators (as in an operating room or theater)
Etymologies
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Examples
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This amphitheatre is the Val Buona; that little white house is the cottage of Bastian the wood-ranger; yonder pale gigantic pinnacles towering in solitary splendour above the tree-tops to the rear of the cottage, are the crests of the Cristallo.
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Nothing to do but pull on a thick balaclava, grab the sled, and go steaming up the hill to the top of what we call the amphitheatre, in the field opposite the main house.
Via Negativa 2009
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Nothing to do but pull on a thick balaclava, grab the sled, and go steaming up the hill to the top of what we call the amphitheatre, in the field opposite the main house.
Via Negativa 2009
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For the rest it had the finest and vastest prospect all round it I ever saw from any house: from Tyndale Fell to St. Bees Head, all Cumberland as in amphitheatre unmatchable; Galloway mountains,
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This huge amphitheatre is in course of excavation; and it is quite possible – possible and probable – that inscriptions in the earliest stages of the hieroglyphic writing may there be discovered.
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Presiding over the amphitheatre was a beast-headed god, his head half turned away.
Henry’s Demons Patrick Cockburn 2011
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Presiding over the amphitheatre was a beast-headed god, his head half turned away.
Henry’s Demons Patrick Cockburn 2011
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Sitting directly behind us in the amphitheatre was another artistic inventor from that time who has managed to survive, Victor Moscoso above.
Hippies on Mount Tam 1: The Musical sfmike 2007
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Sitting directly behind us in the amphitheatre was another artistic inventor from that time who has managed to survive, Victor Moscoso above.
Archive 2007-05-01 sfmike 2007
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Behind the amphitheatre were the thermae of the same emperor Titus Vespasian.
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