the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
n. The retiring room of actors and actresses in a theater.
The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
n. A room near the stage in a theater, to which actors retire during the intervals of their parts in the play.
n. A room in a warehouse where new or green cloth is received from the weaving factory.—
n. A room in a medical college where the faculty meet to hold examinations, etc.
n. An apartment for drying damp or ‘green’ pottery before it is burned.
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n. a backstage room in a theater where performers rest or have visitors
Word Usage
"The function of poetry and the arts is to remind us that the greenroom is the greyest of illusions, and the reality is the drama presented before us, all its paint and tinsel, masks and pageantry, made one in art."