Adjacent Words
PalestinePalestine Authority
PALESTINE EXPLORATION
Palestine Islamic Jihad
Palestine Liberation Front
Palestine Liberation Organization
Palestine National Authority
Palestinean
Palestinian
Palestinian Arab
Palestinian Hizballah
Palestinian Islamic Jihad
Palestinian National Authority
Palestrae
Palestras
Palestrian
Palestric
Palestrical
Palestrina
Palesy
Palet
paletiology
Paletot
Palette
palette knife
Palewise
Full-text Search for "palestra"
1673
palestra definitions
|
| Tweet |
|
|---|
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)
n
1: a public place in ancient Greece or Rome devoted to the training of wrestlers and other athletes [syn: palestra, palaestra]
Oxford Reference Dictionary
var. of PALAESTRA.
Webster's 1913 Dictionary
Palestra Pa*les"tra, n.; pl. L. Palestr[ae], E. Palestras. [NL., fr. L. palaestra, Gr. ?, fr. ? to wrestle.] [Written also pal[ae]stra.] (Antiq.) (a) A wrestling school; hence, a gymnasium, or place for athletic exercise in general. (b) A wrestling; the exercise of wrestling.
