naumachy

n. 海战演习, 水战剧场

词形变化

naumachies 复数 naumachies

释义与例句

n.
  1. 1.

    A place built to stage a mock sea-battle, or the show performed therein.

    废旧

    Lacedæmonians held their public banquets […], plays, naumachies, places for sea-fights, theatres, amphitheatres able to contain 70,000 men, wherein they had several delightsome shows to exhilarate the people […].

词汇关系

名词

同义词 1

naumachia

上位词 1

spectacle

词源

From Middle French naumachie and its source, Latin naumachia.

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