coliseum

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Touring the ruins of the coliseum doesn't exactly make you want to live in antient Rome...

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an oval large stadium with tiers of seats; an arena in which contests and spectacles are held

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noun

an oval large stadium with tiers of seats; an arena in which contests and spectacles are held

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for coliseum.

noun

an oval large stadium with tiers of seats; an arena in which contests and spectacles are held

Example sentences

Touring the ruins of the coliseum doesn't exactly make you want to live in antient Rome...

The money train is often just a mobile coliseum. There's no escaping the gladiator aspects role.

Our science teacher in the 7th grade made a model coliseum out of foam-core and would release crickets into it for her lizards to eat during homeroom

As fun as it is to make fun of cubicles, they're a hell of a lot more comfortable then being on an assembly line of desks in a giant coliseum. Though no matter where your office is, it eventually gets boring.

If you stand outside the coliseum 15 minutes before an ENO performance, you will see - most surely - opera lovers hogging the pavements. I cannot imagine for one moment a PC handing out a citation to a single one of them.

I cannot help but think of what a colossal waste of perfectly good life it is to reduce human existence to the drudgery of the coliseum. And yet, when confronted with reality, I must almost everyday glumly admit that such a reality is the one we live in.

Just as a medieval peasant had no hope of figuring out how to build a coliseum or an aqueduct, a modern American neoliberal technocrat is entirely un-equipped to engineer, build, or plan much of anything.