Palaestra is valid Scrabble Word

Is palaestra a scrabble word?
Official Scrabble Players Dictionary YES
Official Tournament and Club Word List YES
Collins Scrabble Words YES
Is palaestra valid Words with Friends?
Words with Friends YES

9 letters word
11 points in Scrabble
13 points in WWF

Definitions for PALAESTRA in dictionary:

NOUN:

(historical) a wrestling school; hence, a gymnasium, or place for athletic exercise in general, also PALESTRA
(in ancient Greece and Rome) a wrestling school or gymnasium.
(in ancient Greece or Rome) public place devoted to the training of athletes
See Palestra.
a public place in ancient Greece or Rome devoted to the training of wrestlers and other athletes

OTHER DEFINITIONS:

a school in ancient Greece or Rome for sports (as wrestling)

Words related to PALAESTRA

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Words that contain PALAESTRA

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How to use PALAESTRA in a sentence

Your favourite Greeks never allowed an athlete to go into the palaestra unless he had previously lived a life of complete chastity for a whole year.
It stood before the tomb of Alope, and was called the Palaestra of Cercyon even in the time of this writer, who takes notice of many others.
They were also indignant because he adopted Greek manners, wore his toga thrown back over his shoulder, and contended in the palaestra.
And at that moment all the people in the palaestra crowded about us, and, O rare! I caught a sight of the inwards of his garment, and took the flame.
Here the place of meeting, which is also a palaestra, is quite forgotten, and the boys play a subordinate part.

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