Definitions for palestras

palestras pa·les·tra

Spelling: [puh-les-truh]
IPA: /pəˈlɛs trə/

Palestras is a 9 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 10 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 12 points.

You can make 569 anagrams from letters in palestras (aaelprsst).

Definitions for palestras

noun

  1. a public place for training or exercise in wrestling or athletics.
  2. a public place for training or exercise in wrestling or athletics.

Origin of palestras

1375-1425; late Middle English palestre Latin palaestra a wrestling school, place of exercise Greek palaístra, equivalent to palais-, variant stem of palaíein to wrestle + -tra feminine noun

Examples for palestras

The Spartan maidens were required to exercise in the palestra, almost naked, in the presence of men and strangers.

For many things there be, which we must conceit and apprehend, as though we had had to do with an antagonist at the palestra.

But when we leave the child "free as a man" in the palestra of his own intelligence, his type changes entirely.

PTL (Italian, n.)—the Italian translation for gym (palestra), tanning (tintarella), and laundry (lavanderia).

This wasnt a lovers bower; it was only a palestra, or an observatory.

The Spartan maidens were required to exercise in the palestra, almost naked, in the presence of men and strangers.

This wasnt a lovers bower; it was only a palestra, or an observatory.

PTL (Italian, n.)—the Italian translation for gym (palestra), tanning (tintarella), and laundry (lavanderia).

But when we leave the child "free as a man" in the palestra of his own intelligence, his type changes entirely.

For many things there be, which we must conceit and apprehend, as though we had had to do with an antagonist at the palestra.

Word Value for palestras
Scrable

10

Words with friends

12

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