Look up: gladiators

1. gladiators
   gladiators From gladius, sword. Soldiers of the sand (arena), who performed for an audience as entertainment. Inherited from the Etruscans, the gladiator performed throughout Italy, including Rome. Whether military deserters, condemned criminals, slaves, or freemen; in all cases, they were thought...
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2. gladiators
   gladiators [Lat.,=swordsmen], in ancient Rome, class of professional fighters, who performed for exhibition. Gladiatorial combats usually took place in amphitheaters. They probably were introduced from Etruria and originally were funeral games. Gladitorial combats, which took place in the Colosseum ...
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3. Gladiators
   (UK TV series) `Gladiators` is a British television series produced by LWT for ITV on Saturdays nights from 10 October 1992 to 1 January 2000. It is an adaptation of the United States game show American Gladiators. An Australian spin-off and a Swedish one followed. A revival of ...
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4. Gladiators
   (Australian TV series) `Gladiators` is an Australian television series which aired on Saturday nights on the Seven Network from 1995 until 1996 almost consecutively for eighteen months. It was based on the American version of the same name. It was revived in 2008. The premise of the sh...
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5. Gladiators
   (television franchise) `Gladiators` is a sports entertainment television show that was an international success during the 1990s and early 2000s with shows being filmed in America, Finland, The United Kingdom, Australia, South Africa, Sweden, Nigeria and Denmark. Russia, Germany, The Bahamas ...
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