theater

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• US, sometimes: /ˈθɪə.tɚ/
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• Canada, Southern-US: /ˈθi(ə)tɚ/
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• Canada, Southern-US: /ˈθi.eɪ.tɚ/
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• UK: /ˈθiː.ə.tə/
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• UK: /ˈθɪə.tə/
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• UK, dated: /θiˈɛt.ə/
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• UK, obsolete: /θiˈeɪ.tə/
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• New-Zealand: /ˈθiətə/
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• New-Zealand: [ˈθiə̯tɜ]
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• New-Zealand: [ˈθiə̯ɾɜ]
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• Australia: Recorded audio is listed in the source snapshot.
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• rhymes with (US, Canada, Southern American English) -iːtə(ɹ)
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• rhymes with -iːətə(ɹ)
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• rhymes with (UK, somewhat dated) -ɛtə
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• rhymes with (South Asia) -eɪtə
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• CMU ARPABET: TH IY1 AH0 T ER0 Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
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Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *dheyh2-der. Ancient Greek θεάομαι (theáomai) Proto-Indo-European *-tḗr Proto-Indo-European *-trom Proto-Hellenic *-tron Ancient Greek -τρον (-tron) Ancient Greek θέᾱτρον (théātron)der. Latin theātrumbor. Old French teatrebor. Middle English theater, theatre English theater Inherited from Middle English theater, theatre, from Old French theatre, from Latin theātrum, from Ancient Greek θέᾱτρον (théātron, “a place for viewing”), from θεᾰ́ομαι (theắomai, “to see", "to watch", "to observe”). Doublet of tiatr.

199 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Afrikaans: teater — place or building
• Albanian: teatër — place or building
• Amharic: ቴያትር (teyatr) — place or building
• Arabic: مَسْرَح (masraḥ) — place or building
• Arabic: مسرح (masraḥ) — place or building
• Arabic: تياترو (tyatro) — place or building
• Armenian: թատրոն (tʻatron) — place or building
• Assamese: থিয়েটাৰ (thietar) — place or building
• Asturian: teatru — place or building
• Azerbaijani: teatr — place or building
• Azerbaijani: tiyatro — place or building
• Azerbaijani: tiyatır — place or building
• South Azerbaijani: تياترو (tiatro) — place or building
• South Azerbaijani: تياتر (tiatr) — place or building
• Bashkir: театр (teatr) — place or building
• Basque: antzerkia — place or building
• Belarusian: тэа́тр (teátr) — place or building
• Belarusian: тэа́тар (teátar) — place or building
• Bengali: মঞ্চনাটক (monconaṭok) — place or building
• Bengali: থিয়েটার (thiẏeṭar) — place or building
• Bulgarian: теа́тър (teátǎr) — place or building
• Burmese: ကပွဲရုံ (ka.pwai:rum) — place or building
• Burmese: ဇာတ်ရုံ (jatrum) — place or building
• Carpathian Rusyn: теа́тр (teátr) — place or building
• Catalan: teatre — place or building
• Chinese Cantonese: 劇場 /剧场 (kek6 coeng4) — place or building
• Chinese Cantonese: 劇院 /剧院 — place or building
• Chinese: 劇場 /剧场 (zh-min-nan) — place or building
• Chinese: 劇院 /剧院 (zh-min-nan) — place or building
• Chinese Mandarin: 劇場 /剧场 (jùchǎng) — place or building
• Chinese Mandarin: 劇院 /剧院 (jùyuàn) — place or building
• Corsican: teatru — place or building
• Czech: divadlo — place or building
• Danish: teater — place or building
• Dutch: theater — place or building
• Esperanto: teatro — place or building
• Esperanto: teatrejo — place or building
• Estonian: teater — place or building
• Faroese: sjónleikarhús — place or building
• Finnish: teatteri — place or building
• French: théâtre — place or building
• Georgian: თეატრი (teaṭri) — place or building
• German: Theater — place or building
• German: Schauspielhaus — place or building
• German: Theatergebäude — place or building
• German: Theaterhaus — place or building
• East Central German: Dhejador — place or building
• Greek: θέατρο (théatro) — place or building
• Ancient Greek: θέατρον (théatron) — place or building
• Greenlandic: isiginnaartitsisarfik — place or building
• Haitian Creole: teyat — place or building
• Hebrew: תֵּאַטְרוֹן (teatrón) — place or building
• Hindi: थिएटर (thieṭar) — place or building
• Hindi: रंगमंच (raṅgmañc) — place or building
• Hindi: प्रेक्षागृह (prekṣāgŕh) — place or building
• Hungarian: színház — place or building
• Icelandic: leikhús — place or building
• Indonesian: teater — place or building
• Irish: amharclann — place or building
• Istriot: taiatro — place or building
• Italian: teatro — place or building
• Japanese: 劇場 (gekijō) — place or building
• Japanese: シアター (shiatā) — place or building
• Kalmyk: җөҗг (jöjg) — place or building
• Kannada: ರಂಗಭೂಮಿ (raṅgabhūmi) — place or building
• Kannada: ರಂಗಮಂಟಪ (raṅgamaṇṭapa) — place or building
• Kashubian: téater — place or building
• Kazakh: театр (teatr) — place or building
• Khmer: រោងល្ខោន (roong lkhaon) — place or building
• Korean: 극장 (geukjang) — place or building
• Northern Kurdish: tiyatro — place or building
• Kyrgyz: театр (teatr) — place or building
• Ladino: טיאטרו — place or building
• Ladino: teatro — place or building
• Lao: ໂຮງລະຄອນ (hōng la khǭn) — place or building
• Latin: theātrum — place or building
• Latvian: teātris — place or building
• Limburgish: teater — place or building
• Lithuanian: teatras — place or building
• Lithuanian: vaidykla — place or building
• Macedonian: теа́тар (teátar) — place or building
• Malagasy: sehatra — place or building
• Malay: teater — place or building
• Malayalam: രംഗകല (raṅgakala) — place or building
• Malayalam: തിയേറ്റർ (tiyēṟṟaṟ) — place or building
• Maltese: teatru — place or building
• Māori: whare tapere — place or building
• Māori: whare purei — place or building
• Marathi: नाट्यगृह (nāṭyagŕh) — place or building
• Marathi: नाट्यमंदिर (nāṭyamandir) — place or building
• Mongolian: театр (teatr) — place or building
• Mongolian: ᠲᠢᠶᠠᠲ᠋ᠷ (tiyatr) — place or building
• Norman: thiâtre — place or building
• Norman: théyâte — place or building
• Norman: théatre — place or building
• Norwegian Bokmål: teater — place or building
• Norwegian Nynorsk: teater — place or building
• Odia: ଥିଏଟର (thieṭara) — place or building
• Old English: pleġhūs — place or building
• Pashto: تياتر (tyātər) — place or building
• Pashto: نندارځى (nəndārjay) — place or building
• Iranian Persian: تِئاتَر (te'âtar) — place or building
• Iranian Persian: تِئاتْر (te'âtr) — place or building
• Polish: teatr — place or building
• Portuguese: teatro — place or building
• Romanian: teatru — place or building
• Russian: теа́тр (teátr) — place or building
• Scottish Gaelic: taigh-cluiche — place or building
• Scottish Gaelic: talla-cluiche — place or building
• Serbo-Croatian: теа́тар — place or building
• Serbo-Croatian: позориште — place or building
• Serbo-Croatian: ка̀залӣште — place or building
• Serbo-Croatian: teátar — place or building
• Serbo-Croatian: pozorište — place or building
• Serbo-Croatian: kàzalīšte — place or building
• Sicilian: teatru — place or building
• Silesian: tyjater — place or building
• Sinhalese: නාට්ය කලාව (nāṭya kalāwa) — place or building
• Slovak: divadlo — place or building
• Slovene: gledališče — place or building
• Lower Sorbian: źiwadło — place or building
• Upper Sorbian: dźiwadło — place or building
• Southern Altai: театр (teatr) — place or building
• Spanish: teatro — place or building
• Swahili: ukumbi — place or building
• Swahili: thiata — place or building
• Swedish: teater — place or building
• Tagalog: teatro — place or building
• Tagalog: dulaan — place or building
• Tajik: театр (teatr) — place or building
• Tamil: அரங்கு (araṅku) — place or building
• Tamil: அரங்கம் (araṅkam) — place or building
• Tatar: театр (teatr) — place or building
• Telugu: నాటకరంగం (nāṭakaraṅgaṁ) — place or building
• Telugu: థియేటర్ (thiyēṭar) — place or building
• Thai: โรงละคร (roong-lá-kɔɔn) — place or building
• Tibetan: ཟློས་གར (zlos gar) — place or building
• Tigrinya: ትያትር (təyatr) — place or building
• Tocharian B: rānk — place or building
• Turkish: tiyatro — place or building
• Ottoman Turkish: تیاترو (tiyatro) — place or building
• Turkmen: teatr — place or building
• Ukrainian: теа́тр (teátr) — place or building
• Urdu: تِھئیٹَر (thieṭar) — place or building
• Urdu: تھیٹَر (theṭar) — place or building
• Urdu: تِھیَٹَر (thiyaṭar) — place or building
• Urdu: تِھیئَٹَر (thīaṭar) — place or building
• Uyghur: تىياتىر (tiyatir) — place or building
• Uyghur: تىياتىرخانا (tiyatirxana) — place or building
• Uzbek: teatr — place or building
• Vietnamese: nhà hát — place or building
• Vietnamese: rạp hát — place or building
• Volapük: teatöp — place or building
• Walloon: teyåte — place or building
• Welsh: theatr — place or building
• Yiddish: טעאַטער (teater) — place or building
• Zhuang: heiqciengz — place or building
• Zhuang: yienh — place or building
• Bulgarian: аре́на (aréna) — region
• Catalan: teatre — region
• Chinese Mandarin: 戰區 /战区 (zhànqū) — region
• Finnish: rintama — region
• Indonesian: palagan — region
• Japanese: 戦域 (sen'iki) — region
• Korean: 전구 (jeon'gu) — region
• Korean: 전역 (jeonyeok) — region
• Spanish: zona — region
• Bulgarian: амфитеатра́лна аудито́рия (amfiteatrálna auditórija) — lecture theatre
• Catalan: amfiteatre — lecture theatre
• Finnish: luentosali — lecture theatre
• Greek: αμφιθέατρο (amfithéatro) — lecture theatre
• Romanian: amfiteatru — lecture theatre
• Arabic: مَسْرَح (masraḥ) — drama or performance as a profession or artform
• Armenian: թատրոն (tʻatron) — drama or performance as a profession or artform
• Asturian: teatru — drama or performance as a profession or artform
• Bulgarian: теа́тър (teátǎr) — drama or performance as a profession or artform
• Catalan: teatre — drama or performance as a profession or artform
• Czech: divadlo — drama or performance as a profession or artform
• Dutch: theater — drama or performance as a profession or artform
• Finnish: teatteri — drama or performance as a profession or artform
• Finnish: ilmaisutaito — drama or performance as a profession or artform
• French: théâtre — drama or performance as a profession or artform
• Hindi: रंगमंच (raṅgmañc) — drama or performance as a profession or artform
• Hungarian: színház — drama or performance as a profession or artform
• Ido: teatro — drama or performance as a profession or artform
• Kannada: ರಂಗಭೂಮಿ (raṅgabhūmi) — drama or performance as a profession or artform
• Kannada: ರಂಗಮಂಟಪ (raṅgamaṇṭapa) — drama or performance as a profession or artform
• Lao: ລະຄອນ (la khǭn) — drama or performance as a profession or artform
• Iranian Persian: تِئاتَر (te'âtar) — drama or performance as a profession or artform
• Iranian Persian: تِئاتْر (te'âtr) — drama or performance as a profession or artform
• Polish: teatr — drama or performance as a profession or artform
• Portuguese: teatro — drama or performance as a profession or artform
• Romanian: teatru — drama or performance as a profession or artform
• Russian: теа́тр (teátr) — drama or performance as a profession or artform
• Spanish: teatro — drama or performance as a profession or artform
• Swedish: teater — drama or performance as a profession or artform
• Thai: ละคร (lá-kɔɔn) — drama or performance as a profession or artform
• Volapük: teat — drama or performance as a profession or artform
• Walloon: teyåte — drama or performance as a profession or artform