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- proper noun The largest
stadium in the Roman empire, located near the center of Rome.
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Examples
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"The name Colosseum first appears in the Venerable Bede's Historia Ecclesiastica Gentis Anglorum in the eighth century AD."
Crusader Gold Gibbons, David 2007
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"The name Colosseum first appears in the Venerable Bede's Historia Ecclesiastica Gentis Anglorum in the eighth century AD."
Crusader Gold Gibbons, David 2007
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The Colosseum is a lasting monument to Rome itself.
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In addition to much else, the Colosseum is the tallest structure to survive from classical antiquity.
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At 157 feet tall, the Colosseum is the tallest structure to survive from classical antiquity.
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Colosseum, which is now lit with different colors.
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Probably there were very smart people in ancient Rome who thought that the Colosseum was a waste of money for a bunch of folks who wanted to drink beer in the sun and then realize they had to pee.
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The Colosseum was a huge oval, covering six acres with eighty entrances of precious marble facings.
The Eternal Mercenary Sadler, Barry 1980
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Flavian amphitheatre, which early in the Middle Ages began to be called the Colosseum, is here referred to.
The Itinerary of Benjamin of Tudela Benjamin of Tudela
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The gigantic edifice, called the Colosseum, in its way as truly typifies Roman architectural genius as the Parthenon represents at its best that of the
Early European History Hutton Webster
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