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gladiatorial

gladiatorial adjective: of or pertaining to a gladiator.

Adjective

gladiatorial (comparative more gladiatorial, superlative most gladiatorial)

  1. Of or pertaining to a gladiator.
    • Gladiatorial entertainment was common in ancient Rome.
    • "And all the better for yourself if you never enter the gladiatorial arena of public life: you will sacrifice time, health, and talents; you will be paragraphed—probably pelted; you will die of an inflammation, or a consumption; and leave it a debatable point to historians, what was the extent of...1831, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter XXI, in Romance and Reality. […], volume II, London: Henry Colburn and Richard Bentley, […], →OCLC, page 313

gladiatorial meaning in Bengali

gladiatorial in Bengali

গ্ল্যাডিয়েটর সংক্রান্ত, সম্পর্কিত

Forms of gladiatorial

comparativemore gladiatorial
superlativemost gladiatorial

Origin of gladiatorial

From Latin gladiātōrius + -al. By surface analysis, gladiator + -ial.

Words formed from gladiatorial

Words that rhyme with gladiatorial

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Questions about gladiatorial

What does gladiatorial mean?
Gladiatorial means of or pertaining to a gladiator.
What is gladiatorial in Bengali?
Gladiatorial in Bengali is গ্ল্যাডিয়েটর সংক্রান্ত, সম্পর্কিত. See Gladiatorial meaning in Bengali.
What part of speech is gladiatorial?
Gladiatorial is an adjective.

Words near gladiatorial in the dictionary

  1. gladiates
  2. gladiating
  3. gladiation
  4. gladiator
  5. gladiatored
  6. gladiatorial
  7. gladiatorialism
  8. gladiatorially
  9. gladiatorian
  10. gladiatoring
  11. gladiatorism

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