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Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.
Sound
Each Play button uses your device's default local English voice, or a natural local fallback. The selected voice name appears after playback. This is synthesized speech, not a source recording.
noun
Alternative spelling of theater.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: Australia, Canada, Hong-Kong, New-Zealand, UK, alt-of, alternative, countable, uncountable
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
noun
A cinema; movie theatre.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: Australia, Canada, New-Zealand, South-Asia, countable, rare, uncountable
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
noun
a building where theatrical performances or motion-picture shows can be presented
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Synonyms: theater, house
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: building, edifice
Narrower terms: arena theater, theater in the round, cinema, movie theater, movie theatre, movie house, picture palace, dinner theater, dinner theatre, home theater, home theatre, little theater, little theatre, music hall, vaudeville theater, vaudeville theatre, opera, opera house
noun
the art of writing and producing plays
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Synonyms: dramaturgy, dramatic art, dramatics, theater
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: communication, communicating
Narrower terms: stage
noun
a region in which active military operations are in progress
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Synonyms: field, field of operations, theater, theater of operations, theatre of operations
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: region
History
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 theatre From Middle English theater, theatre, from Old French theatre, from Latin theatrum, from Ancient Greek θέατρον (théatron, “a place for viewing”), from θεάομαι (theáomai, “to see, watch, observe”).
