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# amphitheatre

«amphitheatre» in Mova's school dictionary: **a round or oval building with rows of seats rising around…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

noun (amphitheatre, amphitheatres)

### meaning for a pupil

An amphitheatre is a round or oval building with rows of seats rising around an open space, where people watch shows or games. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/amphitheatre/#m1)

### sense in the lessons

in stories, a huge place where crowds sit high and look down on a fight or a show

### examples

- The Romans watched fights in a great amphitheatre. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/amphitheatre/#x1)
- We look down on the crowd in the amphitheatre. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/amphitheatre/#x2)
- The seats rise in rows all around the arena. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/amphitheatre/#x3)

### note

nothing for maths

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «amphitheatre» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/amphitheatre/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.