Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Same as
amphitheatrical .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Amphitheatrical; resembling an amphitheater.
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- adjective Alternative form of
amphitheatrical .
Etymologies
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Examples
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This rudely amphitheatral space seemed now the better part of a mile to its outer edge.
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The hall was a vast and intricate space — galleries, balconies, broad spaces of amphitheatral steps, and great archways.
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We encamped under a banian tree; our surroundings were the now light-grey waters of the Tanganika, an amphitheatral range of hills, and the village of Niasanga, situated at the mouth of the rivulet Niasanga, with its grove of palms, thicket of plantains, and plots of grain and cassava fields.
How I Found Livingstone Henry Morton 2004
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I saw my monument (rather a mean little affair, and I wished I knew who'd done it), and the old elm tree and the sea view vanished like a puff of steam, and then all about me -- a multitude no man could number, nations, tongues, kingdoms, peoples -- children of all the ages, in an amphitheatral space as vast as the sky.
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The hall was a vast and intricate space -- galleries, balconies, broad spaces of amphitheatral steps, and great archways.
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This rudely amphitheatral space seemed now the better part of a mile to its outer edge.
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