The Coliseum was the former arena in ancient Rome.
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Arena
//əˈɹiːnə//
Synonyms for "arena" (136 found)
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Closest matches (28)
Strong matches (40)
Related words (68)
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More general
9 entriesSynonyms
2 entriesRelated terms
2 entriesat location
5 entriesderived
9 entrieshas context
1 entriesis a
5 entriesrelated to
3 entriesbuilding housing such area specifically very large often round building often topped with dome designated for indoor sporting or other major events such as concertsenclosed area often outdoor for presentation of sporting events sports arena or other spectacular events earthen area often oval specifically for rodeos north america or circular area for bullfights especially hispanic americasand covered centre of amphitheatre where contests were held in ancient rome
used for
24 entriesShowing 16 of 24 words.
Translations
108 translations across 49 languages.
Albanian
3 entries- arenë noun (an enclosed area, often outdoor)
- arenë noun (the sand-covered centre of an amphitheatre)
- arenë noun (a realm in which important events unfold)
Arabic
2 entries- حَلْبَة noun (an enclosed area, often outdoor)
- صَالَة noun (an enclosed area, often outdoor)
Armenian
2 entries- ասպարեզ noun (an enclosed area, often outdoor)
- արենա noun (an enclosed area, often outdoor)
Belarusian
1 entries- арэ́на noun (an enclosed area, often outdoor)
Bulgarian
1 entries- аре́на noun (an enclosed area, often outdoor)
Catalan
2 entries- arena noun (an enclosed area, often outdoor)
- arena noun (a realm in which important events unfold)
Chinese Mandarin
3 entries- 競技場 /竞技场 noun (an enclosed area, often outdoor)
- 舞臺 /舞台 noun (an enclosed area, often outdoor)
- 阿雷納 /阿雷纳 noun (an enclosed area, often outdoor)
Czech
1 entries- aréna noun (an enclosed area, often outdoor)
Danish
2 entries- arena noun (an enclosed area, often outdoor)
- arena noun (a realm in which important events unfold)
Esperanto
2 entries- areno noun (an enclosed area, often outdoor)
- areno noun (the building housing such an area)
Estonian
1 entries- areen noun (an enclosed area, often outdoor)
Finnish
4 entries- ala noun (a realm in which important events unfold)
- areena noun (an enclosed area, often outdoor)
- areena noun (the building housing such an area)
- areena noun (the sand-covered centre of an amphitheatre)
French
4 entries- arène noun (an enclosed area, often outdoor)
- arène noun (the sand-covered centre of an amphitheatre)
- arène noun (a realm in which important events unfold)
- aréna noun (the building housing such an area)
Galician
1 entries- arena noun (an enclosed area, often outdoor)
Georgian
1 entries- არენა noun (an enclosed area, often outdoor)
German
4 entries- Arena noun (an enclosed area, often outdoor)
- Arena noun (the building housing such an area)
- Arena noun (the sand-covered centre of an amphitheatre)
- Bühne noun (a realm in which important events unfold)
Greek
1 entries- αρένα noun (an enclosed area, often outdoor)
Hebrew
1 entries- זִירָה noun (an enclosed area, often outdoor)
Hindi
1 entries- अखाड़ा noun (an enclosed area, often outdoor)
Hungarian
3 entries- aréna noun (an enclosed area, often outdoor)
- aréna noun (the building housing such an area)
- aréna noun (the sand-covered centre of an amphitheatre)
Ido
1 entries- areno noun (an enclosed area, often outdoor)
Indonesian
1 entries- gelanggang noun (the building housing such an area)
Irish
3 entries- airéine noun (an enclosed area, often outdoor)
- airéine noun (the building housing such an area)
- saol noun (a realm in which important events unfold)
Italian
3 entries- arena noun (an enclosed area, often outdoor)
- arena noun (the sand-covered centre of an amphitheatre)
- teatro noun (a realm in which important events unfold)
Japanese
3 entries- アリーナ noun (an enclosed area, often outdoor)
- 土俵 noun (an enclosed area, often outdoor)
- 闘技場 noun (an enclosed area, often outdoor)
Khmer
1 entries- សង្វៀន noun (an enclosed area, often outdoor)
Korean
3 entries- 경기장 noun (an enclosed area, often outdoor)
- 아레나 noun (an enclosed area, often outdoor)
- 투기장 noun (an enclosed area, often outdoor)
Lao
2 entries- ສະໜາມ noun (an enclosed area, often outdoor)
- ເວທີ noun (an enclosed area, often outdoor)
Latin
2 entries- arēna noun (an enclosed area, often outdoor)
- harēna noun (an enclosed area, often outdoor)
Latvian
1 entries- arēnā noun (an enclosed area, often outdoor)
Lithuanian
1 entries- arena noun (an enclosed area, often outdoor)
Macedonian
1 entries- аре́на noun (an enclosed area, often outdoor)
Norwegian Bokmål
2 entries- arena noun (an enclosed area, often outdoor)
- arena noun (a realm in which important events unfold)
Norwegian Nynorsk
2 entries- arena noun (an enclosed area, often outdoor)
- arena noun (a realm in which important events unfold)
Persian
3 entries- آرنا noun (an enclosed area, often outdoor)
- آرنا noun (the sand-covered centre of an amphitheatre)
- سالن noun (an enclosed area, often outdoor)
Polish
3 entries- arena noun (an enclosed area, often outdoor)
- arena noun (the sand-covered centre of an amphitheatre)
- arena noun (a realm in which important events unfold)
Portuguese
4 entries- arena noun (an enclosed area, often outdoor)
- arena noun (the building housing such an area)
- arena noun (the sand-covered centre of an amphitheatre)
- arena noun (a realm in which important events unfold)
Romanian
4 entries- arenă noun (an enclosed area, often outdoor)
- arenă noun (the building housing such an area)
- arenă noun (the sand-covered centre of an amphitheatre)
- arenă noun (a realm in which important events unfold)
Russian
4 entries- аре́на noun (an enclosed area, often outdoor)
- аре́на noun (the building housing such an area)
- аре́на noun (the sand-covered centre of an amphitheatre)
- аре́на noun (a realm in which important events unfold)
Serbo-Croatian
2 entries- aréna noun (an enclosed area, often outdoor)
- аре́на noun (an enclosed area, often outdoor)
Slovak
1 entries- aréna noun (an enclosed area, often outdoor)
Slovene
1 entries- arena noun (an enclosed area, often outdoor)
Spanish
4 entries- albero noun (an enclosed area, often outdoor)
- arena noun (an enclosed area, often outdoor)
- arena noun (the building housing such an area)
- liza noun (an enclosed area, often outdoor)
Swedish
1 entries- arena noun (an enclosed area, often outdoor)
Tamil
2 entries- அரங்கம் noun (an enclosed area, often outdoor)
- அரங்கம் noun (the building housing such an area)
Thai
2 entries- สนาม noun (an enclosed area, often outdoor)
- เวที noun (an enclosed area, often outdoor)
Turkish
1 entries- arena noun (the sand-covered centre of an amphitheatre)
Ukrainian
1 entries- аре́на noun (an enclosed area, often outdoor)
Vietnamese
2 entries- sân khấu noun (an enclosed area, often outdoor)
- vũ đài noun (an enclosed area, often outdoor)
Sample sentences
16 total sentences available.
Gall, lover of the Queen, went - magnanimous tour - / Gallantly from the arena to the Tower Grande, in Nîmes.
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Layla's house became an arena for a fight to the death.
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Tomorrow the Chinese national team play against the Korean national team in their home arena.
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Data sourced from Wiktionary, WordNet, CMU, and other open linguistic databases. Updated March 2026.