Crossword-Solution: PALESTRA
Dictionary
| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Palestra | n. | A wrestling school; hence, a gymnasium, or place for athletic exercise in general. |
| Palestra | n. | A wrestling; the exercise of wrestling. |
Anagrams
| Word | Anagrams | |
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| PALESTRA | anagram | SALPETRA |
We have 14 clues for the answer “PALESTRA”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Ancient Greek gym | 1 answer |
| Ancient gymnasium | 1 answer |
| Athletic facility from the Greek for "wrestling school" | 1 answer |
| Athletic training site, in Greek antiquity | 1 answer |
| Greek athletes' training area | 1 answer |
| Greek wrestling school | 1 answer |
| Gymnasium for Spartan wrestlers | 1 answer |
| Gymnasium of ancient Greece. | 1 answer |
| Gymnasium or stadium | 1 answer |
| Old Greek gymnasium | 1 answer |
| Old Greek gymnasium (var.) | 1 answer |
| gymnasium | 4 answers |
| athletic contest Greek | 10 answers |
| Antiquity | 26 answers |
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Sentences with PALESTRA (5)
Arch.) The apartment at the entrance of the baths, or in the palestra, where one stripped; a dressing room.
Suppose a man to have been trained in the palestra and to be a skilful boxer,—he in the fulness of his strength goes and strikes his father or mother or one of his familiars or friends; but that is no reason why the trainers or fencing-masters should be held in detestation or banished from the city;—surely not.
SOCRATES: If you were to go into a Lacedaemonian palestra, Theodorus, would you have a right to look on at the naked wrestlers, some of them making a poor figure, if you did not strip and give them an opportunity of judging of your own person? THEODORUS: Why not, Socrates, if they would allow me, as I think you will, in consideration of my age and stiffness; let some more supple youth try a fall with you, and do not drag me into the gymnasium.
Suppose that at the palestra somebody hath all to-torn thee with his nails, and hath broken thy head.
For many things there be, which we must conceit and apprehend, as though we had had to do with an antagonist at the palestra.
Quotes with PALESTRA (1)
The Big Five is a competition played in the University of Pennsylvania's Palestra among five Philadelphia-area Division I schools: Saint Joseph's, La Salle, Penn, Temple, and Villanova. 'The Big Five' was immensely popular, and rivalries quickly grew to intense proportions.
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Appears in: Newsday, NYT, Universal, USA TODAY, WP.
Used 14 times in crossword archives (1949–2017).