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English

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Alternative forms

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  • theatre(standard spelling in all English-speaking countries that use British spelling)

Etymology

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Inherited fromMiddle Englishtheater,theatre, fromOld Frenchtheatre, fromLatintheatrum, fromAncient Greekθέατρον(théatron,“a place for viewing”), fromθεάομαι(theáomai,“to see", "to watch", "to observe”).Doublet oftiatr.

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Noun

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the ancienttheater (1) of Epidaurus

theater (countable anduncountable,pluraltheaters)(American spelling)

  2. (countable) A place orbuilding, consisting of astage and seating, in which anaudience gathers to watchplays, musical performances, public ceremonies, and so on.
    Synonym:playhouse
  3. A region where a particular action takes place; a specific field of action, usually with reference to war.
    His grandfather was in the Pacifictheater during the war.
    • 2019,Colson Whitehead,The Nickel Boys, Fleet, page69:
      Percy had been too big for the town since he got back from the war. He served in the Pacifictheater, behind the lines keeping up the supply chain.
  4. Alecture theatre.
  5. (medicine) Anoperating theatre or locale for human experimentation.
    This man is about to die, get him intotheater at once!
  6. (US) Acinema.
    We sat in the back row of thetheater and threw popcorn at the screen.
  7. Drama or performance as a profession or art form.
    Synonym:fabulous invalid
    I worked intheater for twenty-five years.
  8. Any place rising by steps like the seats of a theater.
  9. (figurative, derogatory, often following a noun used attributively) A conspicuous but unproductive display of action.
    The Senate confirmation hearings were justtheater.
    securitytheater;hygienetheater
    • 2012, Andrew Rens, “Enforcement Theater: The Enforcement Agenda and the Institutionalization of Enforcement Theater in the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement”, inSuffolk Transnational Law Review‎[1], volume35:
      ACTA proponents rely on claims of a growing piracy and counterfeiting threat. In the absence of credible evidence of the threat or that the measures in ACTA will reduce the threat, ACTA is no more than enforcementtheater.

Usage notes

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  • The spellingtheatre is the main spelling in British, Canadian, Australian and New Zealand English, withtheater being rare.
  • In United States English,theater accounts for about 80 percent of usage in the major corpus of usage,COCA.
  • Some American theatre professionals may use the two spellings to differentiate between the locationtheater and the art-formtheatre. Alternatively, some people usetheatre for things relating to live performances (and sometimes films and cinemas) like musicaltheatre, withtheater being used for other uses (such as atheater of war).

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Compound words and expressions

Translations

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place or building
region
lecture theatre
medicine: operating theatre—seeoperating theatre
cinema—seecinema
drama or performance as a profession or artform
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Dutch

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Etymology

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Borrowed fromMiddle Frenchtheatre, fromOld Frenchtheatre, fromLatintheatrum, fromAncient Greekθέατρον(théatron,“a place for viewing”), fromθεάομαι(theáomai,“to see", "to watch", "to observe”).

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theater n (pluraltheaters,diminutivetheatertje n)

  1. theater (US),theatre (Commonwealth): either drama, the art form, or a drama theater (building)

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Middle English

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Alternative forms

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Etymology

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FromOld Frenchtheatre, fromLatintheatrum, fromAncient Greekθέατρον(théatron).

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /ˈtɛːatər/,/ˌtɛːˈaːtər/

Noun

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theater

  1. A theatre open to the sky; anamphitheatre.
  2. Any stage which plays and performances take place at.
  3. (rare) Awhorehouse.

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Swedish

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Noun

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theater

  1. obsolete spelling ofteater
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