Theater

Noun

 * 1) A place or building, consisting of a stage and seating, in which an audience gathers to watch plays, musical performances, public ceremonies etc.
 * "The theater is not merely the meeting place of all the arts, it is also the return of art to life." — (Oscar Wilde)
 * 1) A region where a particular action takes place; a specific field of action, usually with reference to war.
 * His grandfather was in the Pacific theater during the war.
 * 1) A lecture theatre.
 * 2)  An operating theatre or locale for human experimentation.
 * This man is about to die, get him into theater at once!
 * 1) 🇺🇸 A cinema, or picture theatre.
 * We sat in the back row of the theater and threw popcorn at the screen.
 * 1) Drama or performance as a profession or artform.
 * I worked in the theater for twenty-five years.

Thesaurus
Broadway, DMZ, Elizabethan theater, Globe Theatre, Greek theater, aceldama, agora, amphitheater, amusement park, arena, arena theater, assembly hall, athletic field, audience, auditorium, auditory, back, backdrop, background, ballroom, battle line, battle site, battlefield, battleground, bear garden, boards, bowl, boxing ring, bull ring, burlesque, cabaret, cafe chantant, cafe dansant, campus, canvas, carnival, casino, chapel, cincture, circle theater, circus, classroom, close, club, cockpit, coliseum, colosseum, combat area, combat zone, concert hall, confine, congregation, container, convention hall, coop, course, court, courtyard, curtilage, dance floor, dance hall, dancing pavilion, delimited field, distance, drama, enclave, enclosure, enemy line, entertainment industry, exhibition hall, field, field of battle, field of blood, firing line, floor, fold, footlights, forum, front line, fun-fair, gallery, ground, groundling, gym, gymnasium, hall, hinterland, hippodrome, house, juke joint, killing ground, landing beach, lecture hall, lecture room, legit, legitimate stage, line, line of battle, list, lists, little theater, locale, marketplace, mat, meetinghouse, milieu, mise-en-scene, music hall, night spot, nightclub, nitery, off Broadway, off-off-Broadway, open forum, opera, opera house, orchestra, outdoor theater, palaestra, pale, paling, parade ground, park, pen, pit, place, platform, playhouse, playland, precinct, prize ring, public square, purlieu, quad, quadrangle, range, rear, recitation room, repertory drama, resort, ring, roadhouse, scene, scene of action, scenery, schoolroom, seat of war, setting, shambles, show biz, show business, showboat, site, spectator, sphere, square, squared circle, stadium, stage, stage set, stage setting, stage world, stagedom, stageland, stock, strawhat, strawhat circuit, summer stock, tavern, terrain, the boards, the footlights, the front, the scenes, the stage, the theater, theater of operations, theater of war, theater world, theater-in-the-round, theatromania, theatron, theatrophobia, tilting ground, tiltyard, toft, variety, vaudeville, walk, wrestling ring, yard, zone of communications

Etymology
From theater:, from  theatre:, from  theatrum:, from  θέατρον:, from θεάομαι:.

Alternative forms

 * theatre
 * The spelling theatre: is the main spelling in Commonwealth English, with theater: being rare.
 * In United States English, theater: accounts for about 80 percent of usage in the major corpus of usage, COCA.

Translations

 * Albanian: teatër
 * Arabic: مسرح
 * Armenian: թատրոն
 * Azeri: teatr
 * Basque: antzerkia
 * Bulgarian: театър
 * Catalan:
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: ,
 * Croatian: teatar
 * Czech: divadlo
 * Danish: teater
 * Dutch: theater
 * Esperanto: teatrejo
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * Georgian: თეატრი
 * German:, Schauspielhaus, Theatergebäude, Theaterhaus
 * Greek: θέατρο


 * Haitian Creole:
 * Hebrew: תאטרון
 * Japanese:
 * Korean:
 * Latvian: teātris
 * Norwegian: teater
 * Persian: تئاتر
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian: teatru
 * Russian:
 * Spanish: teatro
 * Swahili: ukumbi, thiata
 * Tagalog: teatro
 * Turkish: tiyatro
 * Ukrainian: театр
 * Vietnamese: nhà hát
 * Volapük: teatöp


 * Finnish:


 * Indonesian: palagan


 * Finnish:


 * Greek: αμφιθέατρο


 * Czech: kino
 * Finnish: elokuvateatteri
 * German: Kino, Filmtheater, Lichtspielhaus


 * Hungarian: mozi
 * Polish:
 * Volapük: bioskopöp


 * Catalan:
 * Czech: divadlo
 * Dutch: theater
 * Finnish:


 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Spanish: teatro
 * Volapük: teat


 * : مسرح
 * Cantonese:
 * Mandarin:
 * Cantonese:
 * Mandarin:
 * Mandarin:


 * : 劇場 (げきじょう, gekijō)
 * : teatru
 * : kazalište, pozorište, gledalište, glumište
 * : gledališče (2)
 * : 劇場 (げきじょう, gekijō)
 * : teatru
 * : kazalište, pozorište, gledalište, glumište
 * : gledališče (2)
 * : kazalište, pozorište, gledalište, glumište
 * : gledališče (2)

Anagrams

 * hat tree, teareth, tethera, theatre, thereat

Noun

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