society > leisure > the arts > performance arts > a public show or spectacle > 			[noun]		 > place for public shows > amphitheatre > arena (4)		
= arena, n. literal and figurative. Obsolete.
(a) = arena, n.; (b) a patch of sand.
The central part of an amphitheatre, in which the combats or spectacular displays take place, and which was originally strewn with sand to absorb…