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WordReference Random House Unabridged Dictionary of American English © 2024the•a•tre (thē′ə tər, thēə′-),USA pronunciation n. - Show Businesstheater.
Collins Concise English Dictionary © HarperCollins Publishers:: theatre, US theater /ˈθɪətə/ n - a building designed for the performance of plays, operas, etc
- a large room or hall, usually with a raised platform and tiered seats for an audience, used for lectures, film shows, etc
- Also called: operating theatre a room in a hospital or other medical centre equipped for surgical operations
- plays regarded collectively as a form of art
- the theatre ⇒ the world of actors, theatrical companies, etc
- a setting for dramatic or important events
- writing that is suitable for dramatic presentation: a good piece of theatre
- US Austral NZ
the usual word for cinema - a major area of military activity
- a circular or semicircular open-air building with tiers of seats
Etymology: 14th Century: from Latin theātrum, from Greek theatron place for viewing, from theasthai to look at; related to Greek thauma miracle the•a•ter or thea•tre /ˈθiətɚ, ˈθitɚ/USA pronunciation n. - Show Business[countable] a building or an outdoor area for plays or motion-picture shows.
- [countable] a room with rows of seats, used for lectures, etc.
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- the theater, drama as a branch of art, esp. as a profession.
- Show Businessa particular type, style, or category of this art:Elizabethan theater.
- Show Business the quality of dramatic performance:[uncountable]The play is good theater.
- an area of activity, esp. where military operations are under way:[countable]the Pacific theater.
WordReference Random House Unabridged Dictionary of American English © 2024the•a•ter (thē′ə tər, thēə′-),USA pronunciation n. - Show Businessa building, part of a building, or outdoor area for housing dramatic presentations, stage entertainments, or motion-picture shows.
- Show Businessthe audience at a theatrical or motion-picture performance:The theater wept.
- Show Businessa theatrical or acting company.
- a room or hall, fitted with tiers of seats rising like steps, used for lectures, surgical demonstrations, etc.:Students crowded into the operating theater.
- Show Business the theater, dramatic performances as a branch of art; the drama:an actress devoted to the theater.
- Show Businessdramatic works collectively, as of literature, a nation, or an author (often prec. by the):the theater of Ibsen.
- Show Businessthe quality or effectiveness of dramatic performance:good theater;bad theater;pure theater.
- a place of action;
field of operations. - a natural formation of land rising by steps or gradations.
Also, theatre. - Greek théātron seeing place, theater, equivalent. to theā-, stem of theâsthai to view + -tron suffix denoting means or place
- Latin theātrum
- Middle English theatre 1325–75
- 8.See corresponding entry in Unabridged arena, site, stage, setting, scene.
Theater, an early Middle English borrowing from French, originally had its primary stress on the second syllable: (Fr. tā ä′trə).USA pronunciation As with many early French borrowings (beauty, carriage, marriage ), the stress moved to the first syllable, in conformity with a common English pattern of stress, and this pattern remains the standard one for theater today: (thē′ə tər, thēə′-).USA pronunciation A pronunciation with stress on the second syllable and the (ā)USA pronunciation vowel: (thē ā′tər)USA pronunciation or sometimes (thē′ā′tər)USA pronunciation is characteristic chiefly of uneducated speech. |