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Word of the Day – Hippodrome

By April 3, 2021Word of the Day

Hippodrome (noun)

hip-o-drowm

(modern) a concert hall or theatre.

(in ancient Greece or Rome) a stadium for chariot or horse races.

Mid 16th century (in hippodrome (sense 2)): from French, via Latin from Greek hippodromos, from hippos ‘horse’ + dromos ‘race, course’. The early sense led to the term’s use as a grandiose name for a modern circus, later applied to other places of popular entertainment (hippodrome (sense 1), late 19th century).

Example sentences

“We had a night at the hippodrome planned!”

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