Meanings of hemicycle in English

This round room with tiered seating is known as the hemicycle.

Crossing the hemicycle, the old man reached an immense porch leading to the peristyle.

So they descended within the hemicycle of hills.

The vast hemicycle was a compact mass of cheering deputies, all waving aloft in their hands papers and handkerchiefs.

Basil pulled away the trailing leafage from a marble hemicycle, and, having spread his cloak upon it, begged tremorously that Veranilda would rest.

On the stage all was silence, but a murmur like the humming of bees in a hive rose from the vast hemicycle filled with spectators.

But let us step on to the hemicycle of the Belvidere, and view some works greater than any we have yet seen, or even imagined.

The 500 young people from 20 different countries filing into the European Parliament certainly seem impressed with the illuminated debating chamber known as the hemicycle.

Henriquel Dupont, that prince of engravers, was sending out wonderful proofs, such as Gustavus Vasa and the Hemicycle.

Undoubtedly the most remarkable of Watts' monumental paintings is the fresco entitled "Justice; a Hemicycle of Lawgivers," painted for the Benchers' Hall in Lincoln's Inn.

"Tell my lord that she whom he favours awaits him at the hemicycle in the garden, and guide him to me."