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gladiatour

gladiatour is the obsolete form of gladiator.

Meaning of gladiator

Noun

gladiator (plural gladiators)

  1. (Ancient-Rome) A person (professional or slave) who entertained the public by engaging in mortal combat with another, or with a wild animal.
    • My mother prepared herself for the evening with the same somber deliberateness of the gladiators in Spartacus.2002, Dirk Wittenborn, Fierce People
  2. (broadly) A disputant in a public controversy or debate.
  3. A professional boxer.
  4. Synonym of heelwalker (“Any of the order Mantophasmatodea of carnivorous, wingless insects that superficially resemble a cross between praying mantises and phasmids.”).
    Synonyms:
    heelwalker

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Forms of gladiatour

pluralgladiatours

Questions about gladiatour

What is gladiatour the obsolete form of?
Gladiatour is the obsolete form of gladiator.

Words near gladiatour in the dictionary

  1. gladiatorlike
  2. gladiators
  3. gladiatorship
  4. gladiatorships
  5. gladiatory
  6. gladiatour
  7. gladiatours
  8. gladiatress
  9. gladiatresses
  10. gladiatrices
  11. gladiatrix

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Adapted from Wiktionary: gladiatour (page history and authors); gladiator (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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