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Football is controlled violence, but it is violence, which people have loved to watch since the gladiatorial contests in ancient Rome.
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Meaning of "gladiatorial" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF GLADIATORIAL

gladiatorial  [ˌɡlædɪəˈtɔːrɪəl] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF GLADIATORIAL

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Gladiatorial is an adjective.
The adjective is the word that accompanies the noun to determine or qualify it.

WHAT DOES GLADIATORIAL MEAN IN ENGLISH?

gladiatorial

Gladiator

A gladiator was an armed combatant who entertained audiences in the Roman Republic and Roman Empire in violent confrontations with other gladiators, wild animals, and condemned criminals. Some gladiators were volunteers who risked their legal and social standing and their lives by appearing in the arena. Most were despised as slaves, schooled under harsh conditions, socially marginalized, and segregated even in death. Irrespective of their origin, gladiators offered spectators an example of Rome's martial ethics and, in fighting or dying well, they could inspire admiration and popular acclaim. They were celebrated in high and low art, and their value as entertainers was commemorated in precious and commonplace objects throughout the Roman world. The origin of gladiatorial combat is open to debate. There is evidence of it in funeral rites during the Punic Wars of the 3rd century BCE, and thereafter it rapidly became an essential feature of politics and social life in the Roman world. Its popularity led to its use in ever more lavish and costly games.

Definition of gladiatorial in the English dictionary

The definition of gladiatorial in the dictionary is of, characteristic of, or relating to gladiators, combat, etc.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH GLADIATORIAL


advertorial
ˌædvɜːˈtɔːrɪəl
amatorial
ˌæməˈtɔːrɪəl
combinatorial
ˌkɒmbɪnəˈtɔːrɪəl
curatorial
ˌkjʊərəˈtɔːrɪəl
dictatorial
ˌdɪktəˈtɔːrɪəl
directorial
ˌdɪrekˈtɔːrɪəl
editorial
ˌɛdɪˈtɔːrɪəl
equatorial
ˌɛkwəˈtɔːrɪəl
factorial
fækˈtɔːrɪəl
gubernatorial
ˌɡjuːbənəˈtɔːrɪəl
janitorial
ˌdʒænɪˈtɔːrɪəl
multifactorial
ˌmʌltɪfækˈtɔːrɪəl
pictorial
pɪkˈtɔːrɪəl
prosecutorial
ˈprɒsɪkjuːˈtɔːrɪəl
sartorial
sɑːˈtɔːrɪəl
sectorial
sɛkˈtɔːrɪəl
senatorial
ˌsɛnəˈtɔːrɪəl
territorial
ˌtɛrɪˈtɔːrɪəl
tutorial
tjuːˈtɔːrɪəl
vectorial
vɛkˈtɔːrɪəl

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE GLADIATORIAL

gladdest
gladdie
gladding
gladdon
glade
gladelike
gladful
gladfulness
gladiate
gladiator
gladiatorian
gladiatorship
gladiatory
gladiola
gladioli
gladiolus
gladius
gladly
gladness
gladsome

WORDS THAT END LIKE GLADIATORIAL

accessorial
ambassadorial
armorial
authorial
cantorial
categorial
Escorial
extraterritorial
immemorial
industrial
manorial
memorial
piscatorial
professorial
reportorial
responsorial
sensorial
tensorial
time immemorial
tonsorial
war memorial

Synonyms and antonyms of gladiatorial in the English dictionary of synonyms

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Translation of «gladiatorial» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF GLADIATORIAL

Find out the translation of gladiatorial to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of gladiatorial from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «gladiatorial» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

角斗
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

de gladiadores
570 millions of speakers

English

gladiatorial
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

ग्लैडीएटर
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

gladiatorial
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

гладиаторские
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

gladiadores
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

গ্ল্যাডিয়েটর
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

conflictuel
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Gladiator
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Gladiatoren
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

剣闘士
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

검투
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Gladiatorial
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

sự đấu gươm
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

போர் சார்ந்த
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

ग्लॅडिएटरीअल
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

gladyatör ile ilgili
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

gladiatori
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

gladiatorial
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

гладіаторські
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

de gladiatori
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

μονομαχίες
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

gladiatorisch
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

gladiatorial
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

gladiator
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of gladiatorial

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «GLADIATORIAL»

The term «gladiatorial» is regularly used and occupies the 59.183 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about gladiatorial

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QUOTES WITH «GLADIATORIAL»

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Michael Mandelbaum
Football is controlled violence, but it is violence, which people have loved to watch since the gladiatorial contests in ancient Rome.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «GLADIATORIAL»

Discover the use of gladiatorial in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to gladiatorial and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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The Roman Amphitheatre: From Its Origins to the Colosseum
Gladiatorial Games during the Republican Period Although the specific origin of gladiatorial combat may never be resolved, it is clear from literary evidence that at least in Rome gladiatorial games were popular and frequent as early as c.
Katherine E. Welch, 2007
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Gladiators and Caesars: The Power of Spectacle in Ancient Rome
Not so with what today we would regard as a far more dubious form of entertainment: gladiatorial contests. A NEW SENSATION The most successful innovation in the repertory of Roman spectacular entertainment was undoubtedly the ...
Eckart Köhne, Cornelia Ewigleben, Ralph Jackson, 2000
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Death and Renewal: Volume 2: Sociological Studies in Roman ...
It seems unlikely that all gladiatorial shows required or received imperial permission, especially those which were on a very small scale in country towns ( for example, a show with four pairs of gladiators - CIL 9.4208), or those which were put ...
Keith Hopkins, 1985
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Western Civilization: A Brief History
Gladiatorial. Shows. The gladiatorial shows were an integral part of Roman so— ciety. They took place in amphitheaters; the first perma— nent one was constructed at Rome in 29 B.C.E. Perhaps the most famous was the Flavian amphitheater, ...
Jackson Spielvogel, 2013
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Western Civilization
Such amphitheaters, in which gladiatorial contests were held, were built throughout the empire. They varied in size, but the one at Rome was the largest. The Colosseum was named after the Colossus of Nero, a large statue of the first- century ...
Jackson Spielvogel, 2011
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Gladiators at Pompeii
Together with the paintings, they establish the most direct antecedents of gladiatorial combat. Originally, gladiatorial games were linked to funeral rites. They were a kind of tribute made to the deceased, from which derives the name used in ...
Luciana Jacobelli, 2003
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Cengage Advantage Books: Western Civilization, Complete
All Rights Reserved. May not be copied, scanned, or duplicated, in whole or in part. Due to electronic rights, some third party content may be suppressed from the eBook and/or eChapter(s). The Gladiatorial Shows The gladiatorial shows were ...
Jackson Spielvogel, 2011
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Evolutionary Computation for Modeling and Optimization
The gladiatorial tournament selection described in Section 4.1 uses groups of size 4. Give a reasonable description for how to do gladiatorial tournament selection with larger groups. Avoid situations in which some of the creatures are not at ...
Daniel Ashlock, 2006
9
World History
This mosaic, from the fourth century C.E., depicts different aspects of gladiatorial fighting and clearly shows the bloody nature of the gladiatorial games. The Gladiatorial Games. The Roman Fear of Slaves The Eruption of Mount Vesuvius.
William Duiker, Jackson Spielvogel, 2006
10
Gladiators 100 BC-AD 200
Those represented on the column and those in gladiatorial art are invariably smaller, although military shields found in archaeological excavations are sometimes larger. One large example found in Kasr el Harit in Egypt would have provided ...
Stephen Wisdom, 2001

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «GLADIATORIAL»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term gladiatorial is used in the context of the following news items.
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Novak Djokovic the gatecrasher ruins party in Roger Federer's …
Tennis is gladiatorial. It is also very lonely if a player lacks support. It wasn't as if Djokovic was jeered but, clearly, the locals were rooting for his ... «Daily Mail, Jul 15»
2
Conor McGregor: Toughest test yet for the man who would be king
... night the two produced a spectacle that was like some gladiatorial horror transported from ancient Rome or some barbaric future dystopia. «Irish Times, Jul 15»
3
Petone rowing four make Henley regatta quarter finals
The regatta, run in a gladiatorial style of head-to-head races on the famous 1 mile 550 yard (2112m) course, drew 528 entries (114 ... «The Dominion Post, Jul 15»
4
Our democracy is broken. Here's how to fix it
This may be true, but the contests are quite gladiatorial nonetheless. To find yourself standing eyeball to eyeball with your opponent, backed by ... «WA today, Jul 15»
5
Review: 'Tether #3′
Emperor Trovaar] hosts bloody gladiatorial games to keep the people entertained. Enter Alina, a human woman who is thrust into the Arena. «Panels on Pages, Jul 15»
6
Scottish Labour leadership interview: Ken Macintosh
And isn't he just too damn nice for gladiatorial politics? Watching his first FMQs against Nicola Sturgeon would be like watching a puppy ... «Herald Scotland, Jul 15»
7
LOL: Stage is set for funny girl 's love story
"I love going to see comedy, but I find the deliberateness of it intimidating, and the gladiatorial succeeding and failing. If you fail, you're rubbish, ... «Irish Independent, Jul 15»
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Schweinsteiger: Quick Fix or Quintessential?
The exhaustion that inevitable came with such a gladiatorial performance, exacerbated any injuries that came in the next season. As a result he ... «The Hard Tackle, Jul 15»
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Valentino Fall 2015 Couture
... weaving in shapes reminiscent of gladiatorial armor (an incredible gold leather jeweled dress, with a back laced-up fastening of a Roman ... «Vogue.com, Jul 15»
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Wiffle ball can be the most dangerous sport played by men
... against their parents for a friendly game of Wiffle ball/Uno/ gladiatorial combat, they turn into that kid you told yourself they'd never turn into. «Maryville Daily Forum, Jul 15»

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