Definition of "colosseum" []

• Variant of coliseum. (noun)

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• "Why don't we just down our togas and enter the colosseum."
• "They just threw plan B at the Church (birth control pills in Catholic hospitals or else?) we are looking at the smoke of Satan and it's beginning to mix with the roar of the lions in the colosseum."
• "I've never known an artist to be able to just come into town and set up camp and just hang out and play a colosseum every weekend, a residency-type situation."