Definitionn. (ancient Rome) a professional combatant or a captive who entertained the public by engaging in mortal combat
Last update: September 17, 2015
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Gladiators were entertainers in ancient Rome. [noun]
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Milch was not ruthless enough, or concerned enough with his own glory, to make a successful gladiator in that contest. [noun]
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A similar clasp knife handle from South Shields Roman fort, made in ivory, depicts a gladiator with rectangular shield standing en garde. [noun]
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Trade-unionism, the economic arena of the modern gladiator, owes its existence to direct action. [noun]
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"Yes," said Thord, his battered features lighting dully, "I knew the boy; he would have made a king gladiator." [noun]
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Or"--he looked away musingly--"or, if thou dost think of it with any hope, choose between the renown of a gladiator and the service of a soldier. [noun]
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It is a long time, you remember the day, since you looked at me at the Luxembourg, near the Gladiator. [noun]
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He had committed his first blunder, by falling into the ambush of the bench by the Gladiator. [noun]
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It was a rebellion of slaves led by a gladiator named Spartacus. [Please select]
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Statue of the Olympian Jupiter, Phidias', i, 160 Statue of the Fighting Gladiator, ii, 187. [Please select]
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He entered the lists himself, and fought as a gladiator upon the arena. [Please select]
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