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COLOSSEUM

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Colosseum mean? 

COLOSSEUM (noun)
  The noun COLOSSEUM has 1 sense:

1. a large amphitheater in Rome whose construction was begun by Vespasian about AD 75 or 80play

  Familiarity information: COLOSSEUM used as a noun is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


COLOSSEUM (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

A large amphitheater in Rome whose construction was begun by Vespasian about AD 75 or 80

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Synonyms:

Amphitheatrum Flavium; Colosseum

Instance hypernyms:

amphitheater; amphitheatre; coliseum (an oval large stadium with tiers of seats; an arena in which contests and spectacles are held)

Holonyms ("Colosseum" is a part of...):

capital of Italy; Eternal City; Italian capital; Roma; Rome (capital and largest city of Italy; on the Tiber; seat of the Roman Catholic Church; formerly the capital of the Roman Republic and the Roman Empire)


 Context examples 


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.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)



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