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odeum

[ oh-dee-uhm ]

noun

plural odea
  1. a hall, theater, or other structure for musical or dramatic performances.
  2. (in ancient Greece and Rome) a roofed building for musical performances.


odeum

/ ˈəʊɪə /

noun

  1. (esp in ancient Greece and Rome) a building for musical performances Also calledodeon
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51Թ History and Origins

Origin of odeum1

1595–1605; < ōŧܳ music hall < Greek ōîDz, equivalent to ō ( ) song, ode + -eion suffix denoting place
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51Թ History and Origins

Origin of odeum1

C17: from Latin, from Greek ōeion, from ōē ode
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A spokesperson for Odeum declined to comment.

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The Santa Clara County district attorney’s office found that Odeum was serving farmed tilapia and calling it wild-caught sole for a period of over a year.

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The settlement requires that the Morgan Hill restaurant Odeum pay $30,000 in restitution by offering customers $30 gift cards as restitution, the Santa Clara district attorney’s office announced Wednesday.

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Among the recipients, the historic Greenwich Odeum theater in East Greenwich is slated to get $250,000 to restore the facade, install an assistive listening system and make the restrooms accessible.

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Upon the southern slope of the Acropolis, beneath the limestone precipices and the great golden-brown walls above which the Parthenon shows its white summit, are many ruins; among them the Theater of Dionysus and the Odeum of Herodes Atticus, the rich Marathonian who spent much of his money in the beautification of Athens, and who taught rhetoric to two men who eventually became Roman emperors.

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