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Amphitheatre

The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • noun. See amphitheater.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • noun. An open, outdoor theatre, especially one from the classical period of ancient Greece.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • 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."
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