gladiator

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. isim A person (professional or slave) who entertained the public by engaging in mortal combat with another, or with a wild animal.

   “My mother prepared herself for the evening with the same somber deliberateness of the gladiators in Spartacus.”

2. isim A disputant in a public controversy or debate.
3. isim A professional boxer.
4. isim Synonym of heelwalker (“Any of the order Mantophasmatodea of carnivorous, wingless insects that superficially resemble a cross between praying mantises and phasmids.”).
5. fiil To fight as entertainment for others.

   “When the dance was done there was the cock-fight, or rather a century of cock-fights, to be reckoned with. For two hundred of these luckless creatures 'gladiatored' bravely, while an appreciative audience held matting up to its chin to keep from being bespattered with blood.”

6. fiil To compete in a public contest.

   “I played very well as was evidenced in that I was the only participant in the entire six or seven days of wind gladiatoring who received a standing ovation from the orchestra, no less.”

7. fiil To debate or argue.

   “He did his gladiatoring doubtless without malice, and from a purely sporting instinct — even as Mr. Punch gave the provocation.”

8. fiil To act aggressively toward others.

   “Why, thin, Mister Levi Slam, don't you think now that a volley poured into them haythen mosquitos beyant would put a stop to their gladiatoring a little?”