Definitions for palestra

palestra pa·les·tra

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

Palestra is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 10 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 12 points.

You can make 458 anagrams from letters in palestra (aaelprst).

Definitions for palestra

noun

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

Origin of palestra

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 palestra

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.

Word Value for palestra
Scrable

10

Words with friends

12

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