"gladiator" meaning in English

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Noun

IPA: /ˈɡlædiˌeɪtɚ/ [General-American] Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-gladiator.wav , LL-Q1860 (eng)-Wodencafe-gladiator.wav Forms: gladiators [plural]
Etymology: From Latin gladiātor, from gladius (“sword”). See also English gladius. Etymology templates: {{der|en|la|gladiātor}} Latin gladiātor Head templates: {{en-noun}} gladiator (plural gladiators)
  1. (in ancient Rome) A person (professional or slave) who entertained the public by engaging in mortal combat with another, or with a wild animal. Categories (topical): People Translations ((in ancient Rome) a person (professional or slave) who entertained the public by engaging in mortal combat with another, or with a wild animal): gladiator [masculine] (Albanian), μονομάχος (monomákhos) [masculine] (Ancient Greek), مُجَالِد (mujālid) [masculine] (Arabic), مُصَارِع (muṣāriʕ) [masculine] (Arabic), գլադիատոր (gladiator) (Armenian), гладыя́тар (hladyjátar) [masculine] (Belarusian), гладиа́тор (gladiátor) [masculine] (Bulgarian), ဂလေဒီယေတာ (ga.lediyeta) (Burmese), gladiador [masculine] (Catalan), 角鬥士 /角斗士 (jiǎodòushì) (Chinese Mandarin), 劍鬥士 /剑斗士 (jiàndòushì) [Taiwan, also] (Chinese Mandarin), gladiátor [masculine] (Czech), gladiator [common-gender] (Danish), gladiator [masculine] (Dutch), gladiatoro (Esperanto), gladiaator (Estonian), gladiaattori (Finnish), gladiateur [masculine] (French), belluaire [masculine] (French), gladiador [masculine] (Galician), გლადიატორი (gladiaṭori) (Georgian), Gladiator [masculine] (German), μονομάχος (monomáchos) [masculine] (Greek), גְּלַדְיָאטוֹר (gladyátor) [masculine] (Hebrew), לוּדָר (ludár) [masculine] (Hebrew), ग्लैडीएटर (glaiḍīeṭar) [masculine] (Hindi), gladiatoro (Ido), gladiatore [masculine] (Italian), 剣闘士 (kentōshi) (alt: けんとうし) (Japanese), グラディエイター (guradieitā) (Japanese), 검투사 (geomtusa) (alt: 劍鬪士) (Korean), gladiātor [masculine] (Latin), gladiātrīx [feminine] (Latin), gladiators [masculine] (Latvian), gladiatorius [masculine] (Lithuanian), гладија́тор (gladijátor) [masculine] (Macedonian), gladiator [masculine] (Norwegian Bokmål), gladiator [masculine] (Norwegian Nynorsk), گلادیاتور (gelâdiyâtor) (Persian), gladiator [masculine] (Polish), gladiador [masculine] (Portuguese), gladiator [masculine] (Romanian), гладиа́тор (gladiátor) [masculine] (Russian), гладѝја̄тор [Cyrillic, masculine] (Serbo-Croatian), gladìjātor [Roman, masculine] (Serbo-Croatian), gladiátor [masculine] (Slovak), gladiator [masculine] (Slovene), gladiador [masculine] (Spanish), bestiario [masculine] (Spanish), gladiator [common-gender] (Swedish), gladyador (Tagalog), กลาดิอาตอร์ (Thai), gladyatör (Turkish), гладіа́тор (hladiátor) [masculine] (Ukrainian), gladiator (Uzbek), гладиатор (gladiator) [Cyrillic] (Uzbek)
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  2. (by extension) A disputant in a public controversy or debate. Tags: broadly Categories (topical): People
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  3. A professional boxer. Categories (topical): Athletes, People
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The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Synonyms: gladiatour [obsolete] Related terms: gladiatress, gladiatrix, gladiolus

Verb

IPA: /ˈɡlædiˌeɪtɚ/ [General-American] Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-gladiator.wav , LL-Q1860 (eng)-Wodencafe-gladiator.wav Forms: gladiators [present, singular, third-person], gladiatoring [participle, present], gladiatored [participle, past], gladiatored [past]
Etymology: From Latin gladiātor, from gladius (“sword”). See also English gladius. Etymology templates: {{der|en|la|gladiātor}} Latin gladiātor Head templates: {{en-verb}} gladiator (third-person singular simple present gladiators, present participle gladiatoring, simple past and past participle gladiatored)
  1. To fight as entertainment for others.
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  2. To compete in a public contest.
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  3. To debate or argue. Categories (topical): Ancient Rome, People
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  4. To act aggressively toward others.
    Sense id: en-gladiator-en-verb-fSkEtZTa
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Synonyms: gladiatour [obsolete]

Inflected forms

Alternative forms

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      "sense": "(in ancient Rome) a person (professional or slave) who entertained the public by engaging in mortal combat with another, or with a wild animal",
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      "code": "it",
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      "sense": "(in ancient Rome) a person (professional or slave) who entertained the public by engaging in mortal combat with another, or with a wild animal",
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      "sense": "(in ancient Rome) a person (professional or slave) who entertained the public by engaging in mortal combat with another, or with a wild animal",
      "word": "剣闘士"
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      "sense": "(in ancient Rome) a person (professional or slave) who entertained the public by engaging in mortal combat with another, or with a wild animal",
      "word": "グラディエイター"
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      "alt": "劍鬪士",
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      "sense": "(in ancient Rome) a person (professional or slave) who entertained the public by engaging in mortal combat with another, or with a wild animal",
      "word": "검투사"
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      "word": "gladiātor"
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      "sense": "(in ancient Rome) a person (professional or slave) who entertained the public by engaging in mortal combat with another, or with a wild animal",
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      "word": "bestiario"
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      "word": "กลาดิอาตอร์"
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      "word": "gladyatör"
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          "text": "It's himself gladiatoring on the harmonium.",
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          "text": "Quoting the accounts in both Time and Newsweek, they note that though the \"defense attorney may have outwitted, outsparred, and even \"out gladiatored\" (another popular image in the trial coverage) his opponent, but he still lost the case.",
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          "ref": "1946, George A. Birmingham, The Piccadilly Lady, page 70:",
          "text": "It's the Count von Eisenstein,\" says he, \"that's come over to Eire for protection against the murdering English who are marauding and gladiatoring about Germany and would kill him if they could, but thanks be to God,\" says my bold McQuirk, \"he'll be safe enough here and it'll be a good thing to have a friend of the Irish people living in Kilfenora Castle, though maybe you won't like it.\"",
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          "text": "Have I been gladiatoring about the place, boys? Did I squeeze the wizendy little fella a bit rough like?",
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