Amphitheatre meaning

Noun: amphitheatre

Pronunciation: (‘am(p)-fu,thee-u-tu)

Amphitheatre meaning or amphitheater meaning:

1. A sloping gallery with seats for spectators as in an operating room or theatre.
2. An oval large stadium with tiers of seats. An arena in which contests and spectacles are held.

Synonym: coliseum

Quotations: Gary Bongiovanni – Traffic, access, noise, residential protests are problems with outdoor amphitheatres, especially those like white river that are built in rural areas. The traffic issues have to be resolved because ultimately, it’s the customer experience that determines whether white river is successful in the long term.

Jim Cannella – We wanted to build a program that highlights artists before they headline our clubs and amphitheatres. We’ve been throwing around the term internally that this is an artist incubator.

Mike Love – We get really busy between Memorial Day and Labour Day because there are all the fairs and amphitheatres and festivals going on all over the place.

Charles Dickens – After musing for some minutes, the old gentleman walked, with the same meditative face, into a back anteroom opening from the yard; and there, retiring into a corner, called up before his mind’s eye a vast amphitheatre of faces over which a dusky curtain had hung for many years.

Mike Miller – A native of Mitchell, S.Dak, small forward Mike Miller played his high school games in the Corn Palace, a 3,500 seat amphitheatre whose exterior murals are made from 300,000 ears of maize. While the arena is popular with tourists travelling on I-90, it is also a favourite haunt of the local fauna. Don’t get me wrong, it’s a cool place, but it seems like there are always birds and rodents eating the outside.

Jerry Mickelson – Some of the amphitheatres have big ticket fees and high services fees and big parking prices and high food and beverage prices. You can go to a minor-league ballpark where a beer is $3 or $4, or you can go to an amphitheatre where a beer is $8 or $9.

Sample sentences:

1. The ancient Romans built their greatest masterpieces of architecture, their amphitheatres, for wild beasts to fight in.
2. That’s not bad, not bad at all. Most amphitheatres don’t sell out.
3. Right there on the lake with the sun going down, the amphitheatre is a beautiful structure. It’s just a great way to enjoy an evening.
4. The Clark Road location made the most sense. The hall will be next to the park property, and a good place to have outside restroom facilities to serve the park and a possible nearby amphitheatre.
5. I thought there was a big void, especially with us being in the Delta, for not having any kind of blues festival. It’s a great way to bring this back, especially with the new amphitheatre.
6. It appears there is some evidence that the officers and agents are being instructed to treat the amphitheatre differently from other ABC licensees, which, if true, raises many serious legal and ethical questions.
7. When you have an entire amphitheatre of people laughing that way, it makes you feel so funny and it frees you to go further than you probably would.
8. She would sit by herself in the middle of the old stoe amphitheatre, with the sky’s starry vault overhead, and simply listen to the great silence around her.
9. There is a beautiful amphitheatre in that company.
10. We all gathered at the amphitheatre to watch the fabulous singer perform live.