■ noun an occasion on which enjoyment or profit is derived from others' suffering.
Origin
C19: from Byron's Childe Harold , orig. with ref. to a holiday given for a gladiatorial combat.
■ noun an occasion on which enjoyment or profit is derived from others' suffering.
Origin
C19: from Byron's Childe Harold , orig. with ref. to a holiday given for a gladiatorial combat.
Concise Oxford English vocab. Сжатый оксфордский словарь английского языка. 2004