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Definition of amphitheater :
Alt. of Amphitheatre
Synonyms:
arena (part of speech: noun)
hall, pen, area, precinct, ground, stage, courtyard, circus, bailiwick, dominion, hippodrome, domain, field, gallery, room, region, enclosure, campus, turf, theater, Colosseum, arena, setting, auditorium, battlefield, battle-ground, ring, gymnasium, realm, circuit, circle, locale, beat, province
Usage examples:
- The big London amphitheater, a third of a mile in circumference, was just the place for such an exhibition. - "An Autobiography of Buffalo Bill (Colonel W. F. Cody)", Buffalo Bill (William Frederick Cody).
- A few yards in advance of them the glen widened into a sylvan amphitheater, waving with firs and pines, and rendered almost impassable by underbrush. - "Peggy Owen and Liberty", Lucy Foster Madison.
- To his astonishment, he was in a great circular amphitheater, a hundred feet in diameter, domed to an enormous height, with the blue sky showing through a rift at the top. - "The Enchanted Canyon", Honoré Willsie Morrow.
