Colosseum
[,kɔlə'siəm]
Definition
(noun.) a large amphitheater in Rome whose construction was begun by Vespasian about AD 75 or 80.
Edited by Greg--From WordNet
Definition
(n.) The amphitheater of Vespasian in Rome.
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Examples
- The Colosseum at Rome, for example, the arena of many great gladiatorial shows, was converted into a fortress, and so was the amphitheatre at Arles. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- They had something of the sort of pleasure in us, I suppose, that they might have had in a pretty toy, or a pocket model of the Colosseum. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
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