arenas
- 1Plural of arena.
Several downtown arenas were renovated ahead of the championship season.
These debates played out in political arenas across the country.
Note
A regular plural, formed with a simple -s, that carries every meaning of arena at once. It can count sports buildings and rodeo grounds, the sand-floored centers of Roman amphitheaters in historical writing, or the figurative realms where people pursue an interest or a contest. Context does the sorting: arenas of study or behavior signals the abstract sense, while a city or a capacity points to buildings.
arenas is a form of arena
arena, noun: A large enclosed space or building, indoor or outdoor, with seating around a central area where sports, shows, or concerts take place. Full entry
- Spelling
- arena → arenas: add -s
- Sound
- The ending sounds like /z/.
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