(n.) An oval or circular building with rising tiers of seats about an open space called the arena.
(n.) Anything resembling an amphitheater in form; as, a level surrounded by rising slopes or hills, or a rising gallery in a theater.
Example Sentences:
(1) Although only a small section of the site has been excavated, there are baths, luxurious houses, an amphitheatre, a forum, shops, gardens with working fountains and city walls to explore, with many wonderful mosaics still in situ.
(2) At their furthest edges, the lochs' peaty brown water laps against fields and hills that form a natural amphitheatre; a landscape peppered with giant rings of stone, chambered cairns, ancient villages and other archaeological riches.
(3) Behind him rise the steep, stone-hewn seats of a Roman amphitheatre in Lyon where, later tonight, Sting will play to a packed crowd of French fans as part of his Symphonicity world tour.
(4) There is an open-air amphitheatre on the banks of the lake called Rabindra-Sarobar, which is a great venue for concerts, theatrical performances and a variety of cultural and religious festivities.
(5) They’re in the business of selling you the $11 beer to you once you’re inside the stadium.” Today’s athletic amphitheatres last just a few decades before being thrown away for more lustrous replacements.
(6) One of these is the Parque de los Deseos , a stone plaza with fountains that doubles as an outdoor amphitheatre for film screenings.
(7) The city’s sprawling colonnades and Tetrapylon remain , while Isis has repurposed its amphitheatre, using it to stage mass executions of its enemies.
(8) Tony Harrison writes: For Jocelyn's 80th birthday, I wrote a poetic toast that listed all the wines we had toasted each other in on what she called, with an always undiminished enthusiasm, our "adventures" - our collaborations on theatrical projects in the ancient stadium of Delphi, a Roman amphitheatre on the Danube, and back to a mountainside in Greece with a chorus of concrete-mixers.
(9) Highlights include the Snowmass Mammoth music, brews and chili festival in June and the Global Dance festival at the picturesque Red Rocks Amphitheatre in July.
(10) Another is the arch of triumph on Palmyra’s ancient colonnades, or the Roman amphitheatre that dates back to the second century AD.
(11) • The complex is an easy day trip from Agra: take a bus or train to Fatehpur station, 1km from the site Pula, Croatia Facebook Twitter Pinterest Photograph: Getty Images The amphitheatre of Pula is the only Roman amphitheatre to have four side towers and all three levels preserved.
(12) That night I go to watch Sting performing in a large amphitheatre just off the beach in Juan-les-Pins.
(13) Under the new contract the name of the amphitheatre was again changed to Fiddler’s Green Amphitheatre and then to Comfort Dental Amphitheatre.
(14) The Surgical Amphitheatre, patterned after the earlier model of Anatomists, came into being in the 17th century and served the purpose of teaching the anatomy of operation to surgeons, but without hospital connections.
(15) Visitors can go to the amphitheatre to watch them head for the skies each evening, just before sunset.
(16) Three days before he plays the boat, Caribou headline Dimensions’ opening party at a 2,000-year-old Roman amphitheatre in Pula.
(17) In the area between Kabul and Peshawar, one fifth-century Chinese traveller counted no fewer than 2,400 such shrines – as well as a scattering of well-planned classical cities, acropoli, amphitheatres and stupas .
(18) "M y life would be very puzzling to most people if they had to follow me around for a day or two," says Brad Paisley during a break from rehearsals in Virginia Beach, Virginia, ahead of his summer tour of American amphitheatres and outdoor venues.
(19) Everything was quite civilised in the vertiginous rows and aquarium light of the amphitheatre at the Guardian's fringe event in Birmingham – until the BBC's deputy political editor stuck up his hand.
(20) Motherhood is riven with insults and fear; it takes place in a solitary room and an amphitheatre where people shout curses or praise.
Greece
Definition:
(pl. ) of Gree
(n. pl.) See Gree a step.
Example Sentences:
(1) 2010 2 May : In a move that signals the start of the eurozone crisis, Greece is bailed out for the first time , after eurozone finance ministers agree to grant the country rescue loans worth €110bn (£84bn).
(2) For months, more than 170,000 mainly Syrian refugees travelling north from Greece have used Hungary as a thoroughfare to the safety of northern and western Europe.
(3) In Europe, for example, the basket of goods tested has fallen 18% in Greece (Corfu) to £57.50, making prices a third cheaper than Italy (Sorrento) at £87.06, the most expensive of six eurozone destinations surveyed.
(4) Samaras said: A "Grexit", as it is called, would be devastating for Greece and detrimental to Europe.
(5) There are no more parties, there is only Greece," said Markos Bolaris, the new deputy health minister and close ally of the former prime minister George Papandreou .
(6) The industry wants the health ministry to bring in a new pricing system so that Greece uses a basket of eurozone countries to calculate prices.
(7) Sadly, the bullet will not only kill off Greece’s future in Europe.
(8) In addition, the UK government will provide further resources to the European Asylum Support Office to help Greece and Italy identify migrants, including children, who could be reunited with family members elsewhere in Europe.
(9) All of the parties have been trying to use Greece to their advantage.” On Monday, the governing People’s party pointed to the referendum to justify their decision to impose austerity measures during the height of the economic crisis.
(10) Greece sincerely had no intention of clashing with its partners, Varoufakis insisted, but the logic of austerity was such that policies conducted in its embrace could only fail.
(11) While Greece struggled to find a new leader, the spotlight turn dramatically to Italy.
(12) As Greece pleads with its eurozone creditors for more time in meeting its fiscal adjustment targets, Dombrovskis is a fierce champion of surgical austerity applied quickly and ruthlessly.
(13) We performed a study of this type in the small town of Lari (Pisa) with the objectives of estimating the prevalence of mental disorders, including "minor" disorders, and of comparing our estimates with similar studies carried out in UK and Greece using identical methods (PSE-IX and CATEGO).
(14) Greece standoff over €86bn bailout eases after Brussels deal Read more But while the bailout chiefs are poised to agree on a route map, the journey for the Greek people seems no less long and arduous.
(15) Edwards pointed to Greece, which he said simply does not have the capacity to cope with the number of arrivals it is receiving and needs massive international help.
(16) That’s precisely the point made by Jubilee Debt Campaign: the reckless lenders that poured speculative cash into the country in the runup to the crisis escaped largely unscathed (though they were forced to accept some reduction in the face value of their bonds – known as a haircut – in the 2012 restructuring that accompanied Greece’s second emergency bailout).
(17) Couldn't the rest of the eurozone just let Greece default on its debts?
(18) The last major international bank with branches nationwide, Citi announced it would close all of its network presence outside of Greece’s two major cities, Athens and Thessaloniki.
(19) Then Greece has another chance.” But the intervention by the IMF will undermine EU leaders who argue Greece must submit to a fresh round of austerity measures to release funds for debt repayments.
(20) But Erik Britton, of City consultancy Fathom, said: "The LTRO [long term refinancing operation] and all those things, all it's done is bought a bit of time, but it hasn't addressed the structural problems, even slightly, even for Greece."