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English
Pronunciation
Etymology
From Middle English theater, from Old French theatre, from Latin theatrum, from Ancient Greek θέατρον (théatron), “‘a place for viewing’”), from θεάομαι (theáomai), “‘to see", "to watch", "to observe’”).
Alternative spellings
- theatre
- The spelling theatre is the main spelling in Commonwealth English, with theater being rare.
- In United States English, theater accounts for about 80 percent of usage in the major corpus of usage, COCA.
Pronunciation
Noun
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Singular theater |
Plural theaters |
theater (plural theaters)
- A place or building, consisting of a stage and seating, in which an audience gathers to watch plays, musical performances, public ceremonies etc.
- "The theater is not merely the meeting place of all the arts, it is also the return of art to life." — (w:Oscar Wilde)
- A region where a particular action takes place; a specific field of action, usually with reference to war.
- His grandfather was in the Pacific theater during the war.
- A lecture theatre.
- (medicine) An operating theatre.
- This man is about to die, get him into theater at once!
- (US, Australian, New Zealand) A cinema, or picture theatre.
- We sat in the back row of the theater and threw popcorn at the screen.
- Drama or performance as a profession or artform.
- I worked in the theater for twenty-five years.
See also
Anagrams
Dutch
Dutch Wikipedia has an article on: TheaterPronunciation
Noun
theater n. (plural theaters, diminutive theatertje, diminutive plural theatertjes)
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New York Times
The festival has been held at the Public for the past two summers, and it produced eight plays in two different theater spaces at the Public last summer. ...
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