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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 80
Familiarity information: COLOSSEUM used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
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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