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Another word for stadium

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Noun
      1. An oval or circular structure having tiers of seats rising gradually outward from a central open space or arena.
      2. A level area surrounded by upward sloping ground.
      3. An upper, sloping gallery with seats for spectators, as in a theater or operating room.
      1. Land, typically a beach, bordering a body of water.
      2. To drive or run (a boat, for example) ashore or aground.
      3. To cause (a whale or other sea animal) to be unable to swim free from a beach or from shallow water.
      1. A room or building equipped for indoor sports.
      2. An academic high school in some central European countries, especially Germany, that prepares students for the university.
      1. A park or stadium in which ball games are played.
      2. The approximately proper range, as of possibilities or alternatives:
      3. Of, relating to, or used in a park or stadium:
    See also:

    arena

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Sentence Examples

  • On the south it was bordered by a portico with a single row of columns in front; on the east by a double portico, more than a stadium in length (220 yds.), and serving as a racecourse for practice in bad weather.

  • An important place of entertainment is Olympia, near Hammersmith Road and the Addison Road station on the West London railway, which includes a vast arena under a glass roof; while at Shepherd's Bush are the extensive grounds and buildings first occupied by the Franco-British Exhibition of 1908, including a huge stadium for athletic displays.

  • The starting-point and the goal in the Stadium were marked by limestone thresholds.

  • "Furlong" was as early as the 9th century used to translate the Latin stadium, s th of the Roman mile.

  • If 500,000,000 is still an inconceivably large number: Imagine a football stadium packed with spectators.

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