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‖ odeum|əʊˈdiːəm|
Pl. odea |əʊˈdiːə|.
[Late L. ōdēum (odæum), a. Gr. ᾠδεῖον a building for musical performances. Cf. F. odéum (1547 in Hatz.-Darm.), also odéon.]
Among the ancient Greeks, and afterwards the Romans, a roofed building, akin to a theatre, for vocal and instrumental music; also, sometimes applied to a modern theatre, hall, etc., or gallery in such a building, used for musical performances.
[1603Holland Plutarch's Mor. 277 Go to the gallerie Stoa, the learned schoole Palladium, or the Musicke-schoole Odæum.] 1682Lond. Gaz. No. 1726/4 To this succeeded a Suit of Vocal and Instrumental Musick from the Odeum or Musick Gallery. 1775R. Chandler Trav. Asia Minor 53 We saw here no stadium, theatre, or odéum. 1841W. Spalding Italy & It. Isl. I. iv. 156 In the free days of the nation, she and her colonies erected fortifications, theatres, odea, stadia, and temples. 1866Felton Anc. & Mod. Gr. I. ii. iv. 336 The market, the court, the gymnasium, the odeum, the theatre..filled up the days of the citizen. |