arenas

noun

plural of arena
1
as in auditoriums
a large room or building for enclosed public gatherings watched the hockey game in the new sports arena

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2
as in areas
a region of activity, knowledge, or influence has a lot of influence in the local business arena

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Recent Examples of arenas After wrapping up his European trek, the 38-year-old will be bringing the Don’t Be Dumb World Tour to five arenas across Australia and New Zealand this December. — Michael Saponara, Billboard, 16 Oct. 2026 Every Wednesday, Friday, and Saturday night for nine weeks, eight musicians and two backup dancers join Harry Styles on stage to perform a two-hour show at one of the most famous arenas in the world, Madison Square Garden. — Elizabeth Gulino, Allure, 14 Oct. 2026 Yang tours globally as a headliner and has recently sold out arenas in America, Europe, Asia and Australia, breaking the record for the largest English-language stand-up comedy show ever held in Hong Kong and Tokyo. — Matt Grobar, Deadline, 13 Oct. 2026 There are two other arenas within 30 miles of State Farm Arena that fit 10 to 12,000 people. — Alejandro Avila Outkick, FOXNews.com, 12 Oct. 2026 Football—besides being one of our more ubiquitous and unrestrained national entertainments—has also become one of the rare arenas in American life where highly specialized language can flourish without censure. — Vinson Cunningham, New Yorker, 9 Oct. 2026 Three franchises—the Nets, Hawks and Warriors—own or operate buildings that ranked among the among the world’s 10 busiest arenas for concerts in 2025, per Billboard. — Kurt Badenhausen, Sportico.com, 9 Oct. 2026 The superintendent also highlighted the academic achievement banners, a tradition inspired by championship banners often displayed in sports arenas. — Hannah McIlree, CBS News, 7 Oct. 2026 Players compete for fame and fortune in destructible arenas modeled after real-world locations like Monaco and Las Vegas. — Jennifer Maas, Variety, 5 Oct. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for arenas
  1. auditoriums
  2. areas
  3. amphitheaters
  4. realms
  5. domains
  6. departments
  7. fields
  8. spheres
Noun
  • Guess theater owners didn’t want to risk another weekend of empty Imax auditoriums?
    — Rebecca Rubin, Variety, 7 Oct. 2026
  • For decades, Zinn traveled the country lecturing to packed auditoriums.
    — Barbara Spindel, Christian Science Monitor, 1 Oct. 2026
Definition of auditoriums
Noun
  • Cult members lived in makeshift homes of polythene sheeting and thatch that Mackenzie divided into areas with biblical names like Jerusalem and Judea.
    — Jefferson Kahinju Reuters, Arkansas Online, 20 Oct. 2026
  • The bar for engaging in major conflicts outside the core strategic areas of Europe and East Asia should be quite high.
    — Charles Kupchan, Foreign Affairs, 19 Oct. 2026
Definition of areas
Noun
  • No, Rome was not built in a day, but it was built at breathtaking speed, its temples, amphitheaters, and aqueducts rising with the help of a magical blend of volcanic ash and lime.
    — Sara Herschander, Vox, 15 Oct. 2026
  • Live Nation agreed to let the Lumineers play in the amphitheaters, but only if I was not involved.
    — Chris Willman, Variety, 9 Sep. 2026
Definition of amphitheaters
Noun
  • These bog bodies tell stories of a time when humans were sacrificed to the gods in bogs, as otherworldly margins between the human and divine realms, or when social outcasts met a cruel, violent end for failing to conform to societal standards.
    — Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 16 Oct. 2026
  • Dante populated his realms of Hell and Purgatory with figures, monsters and moral frameworks borrowed directly from classical Greek and Roman myths.
    — Ed Meza, Variety, 13 Oct. 2026
Definition of realms
Noun
  • These technologies could support radicalization, recruitment and fundraising while helping groups conduct complex attacks across multiple domains.
    — Atharva Gosavi, Interesting Engineering, 17 Oct. 2026
  • The contest of networks will be nearly global, waged in multiple domains, with huge stakes riding on the outcome.
    — Andrea Kendall-Taylor, Foreign Affairs, 16 Oct. 2026
Definition of domains
Noun
  • Only 27% of Americans view both the State and Justice departments positively, and while Republicans’ approval of those departments has held relatively steady, it’s also below 50%.
    — Morgan Chalfant, semafor.com, 15 Oct. 2026
  • Getting different departments to work together is another challenge.
    — Inzamam Rashid, Fortune, 14 Oct. 2026
Definition of departments
Noun
  • Gomelsky told investigators there was no reason Wang would need the victim’s research notes because their fields of study at the university were unrelated, the affidavit said.
    — Eduardo Cuevas, CNN Money, 17 Oct. 2026
  • The schedule also introduces Banana Ball 360, a Notre Dame Stadium event with games alternating between two fields.
    — Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 16 Oct. 2026
Definition of fields
Noun
  • In this procedure, uranium-containing material is formed into tiny spheres by dipping them into a hot silicone-oil bath.
    — Muskan Bhatia, Interesting Engineering, 16 Oct. 2026
  • Wagyu beef and lamb koobideh are formed into bite-size, plump spheres doused in a sweet tomato and sumac glaze.
    — Jenn Harris, Los Angeles Times, 1 Oct. 2026
Definition of spheres

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