gladiatorial
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- adjective
- /ˌɡlædɪˈɛtəriəl/
- Citizens and free men of Rome, welcome to the best, the biggest, the most spectacular gladiatorial games ever presented by your great Emperor Tiberius!
- gladiatorial combat
- gladiatorial contest
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Watch on YouTubeThere's a lot of stuff around the gladiatorial games.
- There's a lot of stuff around the gladiatorial games.
- We're going to engage in gladiatorial contest and that's all it was.
- They're that whole, that whole combat sport thing, the MMA and, you know, gladiatorial.
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Some scholars think the ball was a weapon used in gladiatorial combat.
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Pro-wrestling is much more gladiatorial than horror films.
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And prison, by design, is a gladiatorial arena.
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So maybe the work of reducing the debates to gladiatorial combat has already been done.
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Various forms of gladiatorial combat have long been used to settle all kinds of disputes; some of them, perhaps, a bit silly...
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Every so often, Lea de Lonval found it necessary to rise early and prepare herself, as if for gladiatorial combat.
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The pain inflicted in the gladiatorial contests of ancient Rome was not considered cruel but, rather, was both accepted and praised by spectators.
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PHOTO (COLOR): Chersonesos' theater, built in the Hellenistic period (336-30 B.C.), became the site of gladiatorial contests in the second and third centuries A.D.
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Finally, who is that international community with its international opinion enthroned like bloodthirsty spectators of gladiatorial combats, empowered to give the thumbs up or thumbs down?
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Boxing matches can be quite gladiatorial, as fighters engage in an intense and brutal competition.
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Etymology
Gladiatorial comes from gladiator, which itself comes from the Latin gladius meaning 'sword'. Gladiators were public fighters in ancient Rome, so calling something gladiatorial says it is like a fierce, often brutal fight or competition.