Definitions for palaestras

palaestras pa·laes·tra

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

Palaestras is a 10 letter English word. It's valid Words with friends word worth 13 points.

You can make 578 anagrams from letters in palaestras (aaaelprsst).

Definitions for palaestras

noun

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

Origin of palaestras

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 palaestras

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!

Gymnastic relaxation at the palaestra on the Expanse at Hampstead.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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