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Webster 1913 Edition

Coliseum

Colˊi-se′um

,

Noun.

[NL. (cf. It.

coliseo

,

colosseo

), fr. L.

colosseus

colossal, fr.

colossus

a colossus. See

, and cf.

.]

The amphitheater of Vespasian at Rome, the largest in the world.

[Written also

Colosseum

.]