amphitheater
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Other Words from amphitheater
also ˌam-pə-thē- \
or amphitheatrical \ -tri-kəl
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adjective
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adverb
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Synonyms
arena, auditorium, garden, hall, theater (or theatre)
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City council has approved funding for plans for an amphitheater at the University Drive development MidCity. — Matt Wake | [email protected], al, "Huntsville music audit’s final findings are in," 16 Aug. 2019 Bakish spoke from an amphitheater at Viacom's office in New York's Times Square, starting at 1 p.m. local time. — Georg Szalai, The Hollywood Reporter, "Bob Bakish Addresses Viacom Staff During Town Hall," 14 Aug. 2019 The project added a large amphitheater with two stages and a grassy area where visitors can sit on the grass and watch performances. — Martin E. Comas, orlandosentinel.com, "Longwood weighs moving City Hall, police station from historic downtown to lure development," 13 Aug. 2019 As the music wailed on into the early morning hours, more than 100 campfires — fed by fence-posts and any other wood the young people could lay their hands on — flickered around the hillside that formed a natural amphitheater for the festival. — New York Times, "Woodstock 1969: A Story Vastly Bigger Than Editors Realized," 9 Aug. 2019 In the third century, the Spartans added an amphitheater to better accommodate the crowds who came to watch. — Myke Cole, The New Republic, "The Sparta Fetish Is a Cultural Cancer," 1 Aug. 2019 Castle Rock’s new entrance features 90 parking spaces, six flush toilets and a 60-seat amphitheater for schoolchildren, star gazers and other groups. — Paul Rogers, The Mercury News, "Castle Rock State Park: Grand new $8.7 million entrance opens to public," 1 Aug. 2019 Jordan Spieth is back after winning with a miraculous playoff chip-in last year, a shot watched by maybe 100,000 fans stuffed into the natural amphitheater surrounding the 18th green. — Mike Anthony, courant.com, "Nearly 300,000 Attended The Travelers In 2017; Can It Be Topped?," 18 June 2018 That’s not to mention the restaurant scene in Castle Rock’s historic downtown (nine minutes) or the prominent parks like Philip S. Miller Park with its outdoor amphitheater and 200-stair Challenge Hill (seven minutes). — Mark Samuelson, The Denver Post, "Last chance for new single-family homes in Castle Rock under $400,000, as last Carriage Houses vanish in Meadows," 8 Aug. 2019These example sentences are selected automatically from various online news sources to reflect current usage of the word 'amphitheater.' Views expressed in the examples do not represent the opinion of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Send us feedback.
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