noun.
An open, outdoortheatre, especially one from the classical period of ancientGreece.
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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)
Word Usage
"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."