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/ˈɡlædiˌeɪ̯təː/ · noun
(Ancient Rome) 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.
And it's because something of the mundanely manual still adheres to darts that the players' heroic walk of honour from the green room to the oche is so incongruous. The fanfare begins, the strobes go wild, the crowds roar, hostesses wearing the sort of tinsel dresses that drove me crazy when I was eighteen escort the gladiator into the arena, only he's not a gladiator, he's a plumber.
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.
The guards made me fight other prisoners for their own amusement. It was called gladiatoring.
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.
It's himself gladiatoring on the harmonium.
He did his gladiatoring doubtless without malice, and from a purely sporting instinct — even as Mr. Punch gave the provocation.
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.
Use gladiator when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Gladiator means (Ancient Rome) A person (professional or slave) who entertained the public by engaging in mortal combat with another, or with a wild animal..
Common synonyms include heelwalker, prizefighter.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
My mother prepared herself for the evening with the same somber deliberateness of the gladiators in Spartacus.
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