Spartacus

[spahr-tuh-kuhs]

noun

1. died 71 b.c., Thracian slave, gladiator, and insurrectionist.

Spartacus

/ ˈspɑːtəkəs /

noun

1. died 71 _bc , Thracian slave, who led an ultimately unsuccessful revolt of gladiators against Rome (73–71 _bc )

Spartacus

1. A Roman slave of the first century b.c. He led an insurrection of slaves that defeated several Roman armies before being crushed.

Example Sentences

Between the 1960s and 1990s he worked on several US TV series, including Charlie's Angels, Dynasty and Baywatch, as well as movies such as Spartacus, Diamonds are Forever and The Karate Kid.

From BBC

Does it risk becoming an "I am Spartacus moment"? - the words of Baroness Shami Chakrabarti, the Labour peer and civil rights campaigner?

From BBC

“Spartacus” screenwriter Dalton Trumbo, blacklisted during the Red Scare, may have identified with the shrewd Thracian gladiator who led a slave revolt against the crushing overlords of the Roman Republic.

From Los Angeles Times

In recent memory, mostly it pops up from “Spartacus,” the 1960 Stanley Kubrick Hollywood epic, and its later television offspring.

From Los Angeles Times

If you’re going full bore into swords-and-sandals shoutouts, you could do worse than summoning the ghost of a classic “Spartacus” moment.

From Los Angeles Times