Definitions for Coliseum

Coliseum col·i·se·um

Spelling: [kol-i-see-uh m]
IPA: /ˌkɒl ɪˈsi əm/

Coliseum is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 12 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 16 points.

You can make 328 anagrams from letters in Coliseum (ceilmosu).

Definitions for Coliseum

noun

  1. Also, colosseum. an amphitheater, stadium, large theater, or other special building for public meetings, sporting events, exhibitions, etc.
  2. (initial capital letter) Colosseum.

Origin of Coliseum

1700-10; Medieval Latin Colisseum; see Colosseum

Examples for Coliseum

An alert is in place after shots were fired near the coliseum parking lot.

None of them spoke until they had reached a safe distance from the coliseum.

Look at what Turner will do when his cue is masonry,—in the coliseum.

The coliseum was built as a place for the exhibition of games and spectacles.

His shelter was the coliseum or the doorways or desert places of Rome.

Gotham Book Mart closed in 2006; coliseum Books met a similar fate in 2007.

The coliseum, which we meet first, on our right, was bristling with churches.

“She may never climb out of this coliseum,” he tells The Daily Beast.

You have called a meeting in the coliseum to protest against the bread-tax.

As the Roman emperors knew during the staging of the gladiator games at the coliseum, so FIFA knows now: The mob must be appeased.

Word Value for Coliseum
Scrable

12

Words with friends

16

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