Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Same as
amphitheatrical .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Of, pertaining to, exhibited in, or resembling, an amphitheater.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Of, pertaining to, exhibited in, or resembling an
amphitheatre .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective of or related to an amphitheater
Etymologies
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Examples
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The city follows the curve of the river, seated on amphitheatric hills, retreating from its banks; fringes of dense woods shading their slopes, or making blue background against the sky.
Four Years in Rebel Capitals An Inside View of Life in the Southern Confederacy from Birth to Death T. C. DeLeon
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By ten o'clock, the long blue line of the coast broke into irregular points, the Dictynnæan promontory and that of Akroteri thrusting themselves out toward us so as to give an amphitheatric character to that part of the island we were approaching, while the broad, snowy dome of the Cretan Ida, standing alone, far to the east, floated in a sea of soft, golden light.
Seeing Europe with Famous Authors, Volume 8 Italy and Greece, Part Two 1885
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Beyond this little opening, and bounding it on every side, stood the encircling wall of woods, through and over which gleamed the bright waters of the far-spreading Umbagog on the north; while all around, towering up in their green glories, rose, one above another, the amphitheatric hills, till their lessening individual forms were lost, or mingled in the vision with the lofty summits of the distant White
Gaut Gurley D. P. Thompson 1831
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The result is a species of amphitheatric arena, in which any of the dramatic exhibitions, that are so pleasing to this spectacle-loving nation, may be enacted.
Recollections of Europe James Fenimore Cooper 1820
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The amphitheatric hill with the traditional houses is just infront of us
TravelPod.com TravelStream™ — Recent Entries at TravelPod.com 2010
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The amphitheatric hill with the traditional houses is just infront of us
TravelPod.com TravelStream™ — Recent Entries at TravelPod.com 2010
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The amphitheatric hill with the traditional houses is just infront of us
TravelPod.com TravelStream™ — Recent Entries at TravelPod.com 2010
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The amphitheatric hill with the traditional houses is just infront of us.
TravelPod.com TravelStream™ — Recent Entries at TravelPod.com 2009
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The amphitheatric hill with the traditional houses is just infront of us
TravelPod.com TravelStream™ — Recent Entries at TravelPod.com 2009
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