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!”
Praetorian (adj) (noun) pri-taw-ree-un of or relating to a praetor (a magistrate in the Roman republic). a soldier of the Praetorian Guard (Roman imperial army) First recorded in 1375–1425; late…
