as in coliseum
a large usually roofless building for sporting events with tiers of seats for spectators the football game will be held at the new stadium, which seats 100,000 people

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Recent Examples of stadium The 10th-largest crowd in stadium history saw the Razorbacks lose by their eighth-largest margin at home. Arkansas Online, 27 Sep. 2025 Tens of thousands of people filled a stadium in Glendale, Arizona, to honor him. David Remnick, New Yorker, 27 Sep. 2025 The red-and-white U of L sign facing I-65 went up in 1998, coinciding with the opening of a new football stadium. Leo Bertucci, Louisville Courier Journal, 27 Sep. 2025 First, almost everything on your to-do list is walkable from campus or the stadium. Kaitlyn Yarborough, Southern Living, 26 Sep. 2025 See All Example Sentences for stadium
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Noun
  • The coliseum concert marks The Format’s first full-band performance since 2007, although Sam Means and Nate Ruess did surprise fans at a 2020 viewing party for a Format concert film in downtown Phoenix with a full unplugged reunion concert.
    Ed Masley, AZCentral.com, 26 Sep. 2025
  • Mike Crum, director of Fort Worth’s Public Events Department, said that money will be used to expand the coliseum’s concourse and update restroom and concession areas, among other improvements.
    Matthew Adams, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 27 Aug. 2025
Noun
  • The phone number for the park is 219-926-1952.
    Katie Wiseman, IndyStar, 2 Oct. 2025
  • By the time Italy co-hosts the men’s European Championship with Turkey in 2032, a new 71,500-capacity stadium should stand on the car park adjacent to the current Meazza, on its west side, next to the Capitani public park.
    James Horncastle, New York Times, 1 Oct. 2025

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“Stadium.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/stadium. Accessed 2 Oct. 2025.

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