gladiator
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Latin gladiātor, from gladius (“sword”). See also English gladius.
Inflected forms:
form: gladiators
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: gladiatour
pos: noun
tags: alternative
obsolete
form: gladiators
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: gladiatoring
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: gladiatored
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: gladiatored
pos: verb
tags: past
form: gladiatour
pos: verb
tags: alternative
obsolete
Senses:
gloss: A person (professional or slave) who entertained the public by engaging in mortal combat with another, or with a wild animal.
pos: noun
tags: Ancient-Rome
examples: My mother prepared herself for the evening with the same somber deliberateness of the gladiators in Spartacus.
And it's because something of the mundanely manual still adheres to darts that the players' heroic walk of honour from the green room to the oche is so incongruous. The fanfare begins, the strobes go wild, the crowds roar, hostesses wearing the sort of tinsel dresses that drove me crazy when I was eighteen escort the gladiator into the arena, only he's not a gladiator, he's a plumber.
gloss: A disputant in a public controversy or debate.
pos: noun
tags: broadly
gloss: A professional boxer.
pos: noun
gloss: Synonym of heelwalker (“Any of the order Mantophasmatodea of carnivorous, wingless insects that superficially resemble a cross between praying mantises and phasmids.”).
pos: noun
gloss: To fight as entertainment for others.
pos: verb
examples: When the dance was done there was the cock-fight, or rather a century of cock-fights, to be reckoned with. For two hundred of these luckless creatures 'gladiatored' bravely, while an appreciative audience held matting up to its chin to keep from being bespattered with blood.
The guards made me fight other prisoners for their own amusement. It was called gladiatoring.
gloss: To compete in a public contest.
pos: verb
examples: I played very well as was evidenced in that I was the only participant in the entire six or seven days of wind gladiatoring who received a standing ovation from the orchestra, no less.
It's himself gladiatoring on the harmonium.
gloss: To debate or argue.
pos: verb
examples: He did his gladiatoring doubtless without malice, and from a purely sporting instinct — even as Mr. Punch gave the provocation.
Quoting the accounts in both Time and Newsweek, they note that though the "defense attorney may have outwitted, outsparred, and even "out gladiatored" (another popular image in the trial coverage) his opponent, but he still lost the case.
It was all part of the gladiatoring: the true performer would argue each case to the utmost, like a debater or mooter in our own world.
Och! lave off your gladiatoring; sure it's took up I'd be if I did that!
gloss: To act aggressively toward others.
pos: verb
examples: Why, thin, Mister Levi Slam, don't you think now that a volley poured into them haythen mosquitos beyant would put a stop to their gladiatoring a little?
It's the Count von Eisenstein," says he, "that's come over to Eire for protection against the murdering English who are marauding and gladiatoring about Germany and would kill him if they could, but thanks be to God," says my bold McQuirk, "he'll be safe enough here and it'll be a good thing to have a friend of the Irish people living in Kilfenora Castle, though maybe you won't like it."
Have I been gladiatoring about the place, boys? Did I squeeze the wizendy little fella a bit rough like?
Related words: gladiatress
gladiatrix
gladiature
gladiolus
gladius
Derived words: gladiatorial
gladiatorian
gladiatorism
gladiatorlike
gladiatorship
gladiatory
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