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theater
/ˈθi(ə)tɚ/
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What does theater mean?
noun
- 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.
- A region where a particular action takes place; a specific field of action, usually with reference to war.
- A lecture theatre.
More meanings (5)
noun
- An operating theatre or locale for human experimentation.
- A cinema.
- Drama or performance as a profession or art form.
- Any place rising by steps like the seats of a theater.
- (derogatory, figuratively) A conspicuous but unproductive display of action.
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In a moment or so the first bugles blew, and the multitude began to crumble apart and melt into the theater.
He was taken to the Bessemer furnace, where they made billets of steel—a dome-like building, the size of a big theater.
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The garments were simple in the extreme, and absolutely comfortable, physically, though of course we all felt like supes in the theater.
“I have said and still say that the theater of war is Poland and the enemy will never get beyond the Niemen.”
The interior of the new Methodist Church looks like a theater, with a sloping floor, and as the congregation proudly say, “opera chairs.”