arenas

noun

plural of arena
1
as in auditoriums
a large room or building for enclosed public gatherings watched the hockey game in the new sports arena

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2
as in areas
a region of activity, knowledge, or influence has a lot of influence in the local business arena

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Recent Examples of arenas More than one third of teams are in the middle of opening new arenas or doing major renovations to existing buildings. — Kurt Badenhausen, Sportico.com, 29 Sep. 2026 Between 1970 and 2020, taxpayers across the United States and Canada paid some $33 billion toward the construction of sports arenas, roughly 73% of the total cost. — Abigail Hall, The Conversation, 29 Sep. 2026 The indie-pop artist is booked to play arenas on her The Powerlines Tour of Australia in early 2027. — Lars Brandle, Billboard, 25 Sep. 2026 The sad thing is that there has to be a market for these Frankenstein-esque creations, otherwise these arenas would stop making them altogether. — Austin Perry Outkick, FOXNews.com, 23 Sep. 2026 Sports teams ask cities to help fund arenas regardless of a city’s politics. — Brian Malarkey, Fortune, 19 Sep. 2026 And the artist's power derives from their ability to fill arenas and stadiums. — ABC News, 17 Sep. 2026 To chart a path forward, the scientific community must develop a broad understanding, one that considers the past and present and goes beyond the arenas of research and academia in which our organizations typically operate. — Caroline Montojo, STAT, 14 Sep. 2026 Brooks is a comic who’s recently gone stratospheric — climbing from headlining clubs to theaters to arenas in less than two years’ time. — Matt Grobar, Deadline, 13 Sep. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for arenas
  1. auditoriums
  2. areas
  3. amphitheaters
  4. realms
  5. domains
  6. departments
  7. fields
  8. spheres
Noun
  • Isaacs, usually draped in black slacks and tee, travels from Palm Beach and Broward County theaters, libraries and auditoriums in person and to Zoom classes some four to six times a week.
    — Norma A. Orovitz, Miami Herald, 24 Sep. 2026
  • Other than dividing some spaces into several smaller auditoriums, the original theater has largely been kept the same since 1927.
    — Caden Perry, jsonline.com, 22 Sep. 2026
Definition of auditoriums
Noun
  • The governor of New York on Monday declared a disaster emergency because of measles cases in neighboring states and in rural areas of New York.
    — Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 6 Oct. 2026
  • The spa itself is worthy of a visit, with spaces over three floors with an indoor-outdoor pool, spacious treatment rooms, outdoor relaxation areas, and steam and sauna rooms.
    — Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 6 Oct. 2026
Definition of areas
Noun
  • Live Nation agreed to let the Lumineers play in the amphitheaters, but only if I was not involved.
    — Chris Willman, Variety, 9 Sep. 2026
  • Neil Young did originally book Dolly Parton as the opening act for four dates on his 1978 fall tour of arenas and amphitheaters.
    — Andy Greene, Rolling Stone, 27 Aug. 2026
Definition of amphitheaters
Noun
  • But surprisingly large realms of online speech remained wide open.
    — Howard W. French, The New York Review of Books, 3 Oct. 2026
  • Getty Images Meta’s new artificial intelligence agent Muse promises to make everything from booking appointments to building playlists easier, but its rollout of agentic shopping, in particular, has the tech and retail realms buzzing.
    — Caleigh Keating, CNBC, 3 Oct. 2026
Definition of realms
Noun
  • This includes coordinated sensing across multiple domains and autonomous operations in contested, disconnected, and degraded environments.
    — Atharva Gosavi, Interesting Engineering, 3 Oct. 2026
  • Both execs are well-liked and respected, and both boast tremendous domains, consisting of both studios and networks.
    — Michael Schneider, Variety, 2 Oct. 2026
Definition of domains
Noun
  • The allegations come after the California Department of Human Resources sent a notice in February 2022 outlining that departments cannot approve employee requests to regularly work from out-of-state locations.
    — Corey Schmidt, Sacbee.com, 7 Oct. 2026
  • Major athletics departments instead spend toward sameness, waging arms races to build lookalike weight rooms.
    — Chris Park, Fortune, 7 Oct. 2026
Definition of departments
Noun
  • The experiment showed that the 3D field could create electron states that conventional light fields cannot readily produce.
    — Rupendra Brahambhatt, Interesting Engineering, 3 Oct. 2026
  • The deal between Big 12 and Monster calls for a co-branded logo on football and basketball jerseys, fields and courts, and across digital and social media channels.
    — ABC News, ABC News, 3 Oct. 2026
Definition of fields
Noun
  • Wagyu beef and lamb koobideh are formed into bite-size, plump spheres doused in a sweet tomato and sumac glaze.
    — Jenn Harris, Los Angeles Times, 1 Oct. 2026
  • Growers commonly use sticky traps, often tapes or red spheres that resemble ripening apples, along with chemical or food-based lures, to attract adult flies.
    — Encyclopedia Britannica, Encyclopedia Britannica, 29 Sep. 2026
Definition of spheres

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