Synonyms:
amphitheater, amphitheatre, coliseum
Meaning: an oval large stadium with tiers of seats; an arena in which contests and spectacles are held
Synonyms:
amphitheater, amphitheatre
Meaning: a sloping gallery with seats for spectators (as in an operating room or theater)
Usage examples
Instead, Jim found himself looking down into the amphitheatre.
The Drilgoes vanished, the amphitheatre melted away, walls and roof....
The whole floor of the amphitheatre was a mass of moving shadows, of slayers and slain.
That stairway must lead to the top of the building, and thence there should be some access to the amphitheatre.
Beyond that next hall there should be the tongue of flooring, crossing the amphitheatre and joining the platform of the idols.
The next day the whole fleet, which had been collected in the bay for this purpose, was arranged in the form of an amphitheatre.
It is a land of romance, bounded on the north by the Abyss of Bayswater, and on the south by the Amphitheatre of the Albert Hall.
A screech of terror, a howl that reverberated through the amphitheatre, and nothing remained of either but a heap of macerated flesh.
He had emerged upon the other side of the amphitheatre, upon the platform where he had seen the priests and dignitaries gathered when he was led forward to be sacrificed.
The place was entirely land-locked, buried in woods, the trees coming right down to high-water mark, the shores mostly flat, and the hilltops standing round at a distance in a sort of amphitheatre, one here, one there.