Difference between Coliseum and Stadium

What is the difference between Coliseum and Stadium?

Coliseum as a noun is a large theatre, cinema, or stadium: the london coliseum. while Stadium as a noun is a greek measure of length, being the chief one used for itinerary distances, also adopted by the romans for nautical and astronomical measurements, equal to 600 greek or 625 roman feet, or 125 roman paces, or to 606 feet, 9 inches.

Coliseum

Part of speech: noun

Definition: A large theatre, cinema, or stadium: the London Coliseum.

Stadium

Part of speech: noun

Definition: A Greek measure of length, being the chief one used for itinerary distances, also adopted by the Romans for nautical and astronomical measurements, equal to 600 Greek or 625 Roman feet, or 125 Roman paces, or to 606 feet, 9 inches.Hence, a race course, especially, the Olympic course for foot races.A venue where sporting events are held.A kind of telemeter for measuring the distance of an object of known dimensions, by observing the angle it subtends.In surveying, a graduated rod used to measure the distance of the place where it stands from an instrument having a telescope, by observing the number of the graduations of the rod that are seen between certain parallel wires (stadia wires) in the field of view of the telescope.

Example sentence: San Francisco has always been my favorite booing city. I don't mean the people boo louder or longer, but there is a very special intimacy. When they boo you, you know they mean you. Music, that's what it is to me. One time in Kezar Stadium they gave me a standing boo.

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