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noun
1.
the oval space in the center of a Roman amphitheater for gladiatorial combats or other performances.
2.
a central stage, ring, area, or the like, used for sports or other forms of entertainment, surrounded by seats for spectators: a boxing arena; a circus arena.
3.
a building housing an arena.
4.
a field of conflict, activity, or endeavor: the arena of politics.
Origin:
1620–30; < Latin (h)arēna sand, sandy place, area sanded for combat
1620–30; < Latin (h)arēna sand, sandy place, area sanded for combat
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Arena
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Example Sentences
- The three arenas are a cruise ship, an outdoor table, and a sports arena.
- The jockeying of genes has direct parallels in the arena of human behavior, especially with regard to conflict.
- Right now cost is the only arena where the feds can enter the fray.
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Word Origin & History
arena
1620s, "place of combat," from L. harena "place of combat," originally "sand, sandy place," perhaps from Etruscan. The central stages of Roman amphitheaters were strewn with sand to soak up the blood.
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arena definition
programmingThe area of memory attached to a Unix process by the brk and sbrk system calls and used by malloc as dynamic storage. So named from a "malloc: corrupt arena" message emitted when some early versions detected an impossible value in the free block list.
See overrun screw, aliasing bug, memory leak, memory smash, smash the stack.
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