Definitions for palaestra

palaestra pa·laes·tra

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

Palaestra is a 9 letter English word. It's valid Words with friends word worth 13 points.

You can make 465 anagrams from letters in palaestra (aaaelprst).

Definitions for palaestra

noun

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

Origin of palaestra

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 palaestra

Originally there was no communication between the women's baths and the palaestra.

As such Apollo is κουροτρόφος (“rearer of boys”) and patron of the palaestra.

Gymnastic relaxation at the palaestra on the Expanse at Hampstead.

Thereupon I led Ctesippus into the palaestra, and the rest followed.

Leave the forum, the palaestra, the race-course, and gymnasium?

First there was a court, palaestra, surrounded by a colonnade.

Here stood a statue of the patron divinity of the palaestra.

He was at Athens, in the palaestra of Hippocrates, when the tidings came.

Sceparnio, looking off-stage, spies Ampelisca and palaestra tossed about in a boat.

And at that moment all the people in the palaestra crowded about us, and, O rare!

Word Value for palaestra
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