ARENA • DICTIONARY ONE.COM • Definition of Arena

Add this Dictionary
to your website!
See more options...

/ərˈinə/ Listen

noun

Arena n. (pl. E. arenas; L. arenae)

(Rom. Antiq.) The area in the central part of an amphitheater, in which the gladiators fought and other shows were exhibited; so called because it was covered with sand.

Any place of public contest or exertion; any sphere of action; as, the arenaof debate; the arena of life.

(Med.) "Sand" or "gravel" in the kidneys.

See images of 'Arena'

Etymology of 'Arena'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

Share |

Add this dictionary
to your browser search bar

"Arena" Quotes from Famous Books

... entirely given up. After a famous victory, the Emperor, a feeble boy, and all the great men of Rome, went to the crowded theatre to witness the amusements given in honour of the triumph. After the harmless sports were over some gladiators entered the arena armed with sharp swords. The people shouted with delight because the old savage amusements of their heathen days were restored to them. Suddenly an old man, dressed in the habit of a hermit, and unknown to ...

— The Life of Duty, v. 2 - A year's plain sermons on the Gospels or Epistles • H. J. Wilmot-Buxton

... us in deeper and subtler ways; it is yet the cry of the old, free Northern woman which makes the world today. Though the battlefield be now for us all, in the laboratory or the workshop, in the forum or the study, in the assembly and in the mart and the political arena, with the pen and not the sword, of the head and not the arm, we still stand side by side with the men we love, "to dare with them in war and to suffer with them in peace," as the Roman wrote of our old ...

— Woman and Labour • Olive Schreiner

... sphere which must be supplied with people fitted to its needs. So with a woman in society. She must be a worldling in the best sense of the word. She must keep up her corner of the great mantle of the Field of the Cloth of Gold. She must fill the social arena with her influence; for in society she ...

— Manners and Social Usages • Mrs. John M. E. W. Sherwood

... fluttering of innumerable garments in the air, startled the horses. They dashed violently forward, and plunged upon the bits. The left rein broke. They swerved to the right, swinging the chariot sideways with a grating noise, and dashing it against the stone parapet of the arena. In an instant the wheel was shattered. The axle struck the ground, and the chariot was dragged onward, ...

— The Blue Flower, and Others • Henry van Dyke

... from this that Masonry must not be used for any personal or party purpose in connexion with an election." It further emphasized the distinct caution "that any attempt to bring the Craft into the electioneering arena would be treated as a ...

— Secret Societies And Subversive Movements • Nesta H. Webster

More quotes...