Meaning & use
Hippodrome
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An ancient stadium for horse and chariot racing, or, in modern usage, a theater or arena used for large public entertainment.
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Chariots thundered around the hippodrome before thousands of spectators in ancient Constantinople.
The old hippodrome downtown now hosts concerts and circus performances.
A note on using this word
From Greek 'hippos' (horse) and 'dromos' (course); many theaters built in the 19th and 20th centuries still carry the name.
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