Definition of Colosseums

1. Noun. (plural of colosseum) ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Colosseums

1. colosseum [n] - See also: colosseum

Lexicographical Neighbors of Colosseums

colorway
colorways
colorwise
colorwork
coloscope
coloscopes
coloscopic
coloscopies
coloscopy
colosigmoidostomy
colossal
colossal squid
colossal squids
colossally
colossean
colosseums (current term)
colossi
colossus
colossuses
colossæum
colossæums
colostomies
colostomy
colostomy bag
colostral
colostration
colostric
colostrorrhoea
colostrous
colostrum

Literary usage of Colosseums

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Journal by Indiana, Indiana General Assembly. Senate, General Assembly (1915)
"... to erect and maintain auditoriums and colosseums; also to erect and maintain such buildings in conjunction with private associations and corporations; ..."

2. Journal by Indiana General Assembly. Senate, Indiana, General Assembly, United States Congress Senate (1921)
"... according to the last preceding United States census to construct colosseums, auditoriums, exhibition, assembly, exposition, memorial or victory balls, ..."

3. Graham's Magazine by George R. Graham, Edgar Allan Poe (1845)
"Do Pyramids, colosseums, and old castles, once the habitation of robbers, prove the progress and value of the arts, or rather the misery produced by tyranny ..."

4. The Knickerbocker: Or, New-York Monthly Magazine by Charles Fenno Hoffman, Timothy Flint, Lewis Gaylord Clark, Kinahan Cornwallis, John Holmes Agnew (1841)
"... crushed And though the Flood o'erwhelmed the builders, hurled The massive seats, columns and arches vast; A thousand colosseums heaped in one! ..."

5. A Handbook for Travellers in Spain by Richard Ford (1855)
"The masses at least were not driven to the pothouse or politics ; now-a-days, as the cloisters come down in every town, colosseums arise for the bloody ..."

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