OXFORD 9000
📚 noun • entry_id 15670

gladiator

/ˈɡlædiˌeɪtɚ/
Meanings (ES + gloss)
bestiario • gladiador
A person (professional or slave) who entertained the public by engaging in mortal combat with another, or with a wild animal.
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 beg…
My mother prepared herself for the evening with the same somber deliberateness of the gladiators in Spartacus.