Theater

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The American HeritageĀ® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • n. A building, room, or outdoor structure for the presentation of plays, films, or other dramatic performances.
  • n. A room with tiers of seats used for lectures or demonstrations: an operating theater at a medical school.
  • n. Dramatic literature or its performance; drama: the theater of Shakespeare and Marlowe.
  • n. The milieu of actors and playwrights.
  • n. The quality or effectiveness of a theatrical production: good theater; awful theater.
  • n. Dramatic material or the use of such material: "His summation was a great piece of courtroom theaterā€ ( Ron Rosenbaum).
  • n. The audience assembled for a dramatic performance.
  • n. A place that is the setting for dramatic events.
  • n. A large geographic area in which military operations are coordinated: the European theater during World War II.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • n. A place or building, consisting of a stage and seating, in which an audience gathers to watch plays, musical performances, public ceremonies, and so on.
  • n. A region where a particular action takes place; a specific field of action, usually with reference to war.
  • n. A lecture theatre.
  • n. An operating theatre or locale for human experimentation.
  • n. A cinema.
  • n. Drama or performance as a profession or artform.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • n. An edifice in which dramatic performances or spectacles are exhibited for the amusement of spectators; anciently uncovered, except the stage, but in modern times roofed.
  • n. Any room adapted to the exhibition of any performances before an assembly, as public lectures, scholastic exercises, anatomical demonstrations, surgical operations, etc.
  • n. That which resembles a theater in form, use, or the like; a place rising by steps or gradations, like the seats of a theater.
  • n. A sphere or scheme of operation.
  • n. A place or region where great events are enacted.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. A building appropriated to the representation of dramatic spectacles; a play-house.
  • n. A room, hall, or other place, with a platform at one end, and ranks of seats rising stepwise as the tiers recede from the center, or otherwise so arranged that a body of spectators can have an unobstructed view of the platform.
  • n. A place rising by steps or gradations like the seats of a theater.
  • n. A place of action or exhibition; a field of operations; the locality or scene where a series of events takes place or may be observed; scene; seat: as, the theater of war.
  • n. The drama; the mass of dramatic literature; also, theatrical representation; the stage: as, a history of the French theater.
  • n. An amphitheater; hence, a circular reservoir or receptacle; a basin.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • n. a region in which active military operations are in progress
  • n. the art of writing and producing plays
  • n. a building where theatrical performances or motion-picture shows can be presented
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