Usually means: Outdoor venue for performances, circular.
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  1. amphitheatre: Collins English Dictionary
  2. amphitheatre: Vocabulary.com
  3. Amphitheatre, amphitheatre: Wordnik
  4. amphitheatre: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  5. amphitheatre: Wiktionary
  6. amphitheatre: Dictionary.com
  7. amphitheatre: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  8. Amphitheatre (Drakensberg), Amphitheatre (London), Amphitheatre: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  9. Amphitheatre: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  10. amphitheatre: Rhymezone
  11. Amphitheatre: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  12. amphitheatre: FreeDictionary.org
  13. amphitheatre: Mnemonic Dictionary
  14. amphitheatre: TheFreeDictionary.com
  15. amphitheatre: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations
  16. amphitheatre: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

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  1. Technical Glossary of Theatre Terms (No longer online)

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(Note: See amphitheatres as well.)

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noun:  An open, outdoor theatre (which may be a theatre in the round, or have a stage with seating on only one side), especially one from the classical period of ancient Greece or Rome, or a modern venue of similar design.
noun:  (geology) A natural formation of a similar shape, where a steep mountain or slope a particular rock formation forms a partial or compete bowl, especially one used as a performance space (and possibly modified by carving out seats, etc) because the slopes naturally amplify or echo sound.

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