Meaning of theater in English

theater

noun [ C ]

/ˈθɪə.tər/ us

/ˈθiː.ə.t̬ɚ/

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US spelling of theatre

(also movie theater)

a cinema

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Public entertainment venues

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Theatres, cinemas & their parts

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theater | American Dictionary

theater

noun

(also theatre)

/ˈθi·ə·t̬ər/

theater noun (BUILDING)

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[ C ]

a building, room, or outside structure with rows of seats, each row usually higher than the one in front, from which people can watch a performance, a movie, or another activity:

Lincoln Plaza Cinema has five movie theaters.

theater noun (PERFORMING ARTS)

[ U ]

the art or activity of writing and performing plays, or the public performance of plays:

We have tickets to the theater tonight (= to watch a performance).

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Examples of theater

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The risk in a theater is that one may be targeted with tomatoes.

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All of these spaces provide a context or theater in which public ritual performances appear to have been conducted.

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This comment carried extra weight in an age where political rallies were held in the theater.

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Funding allowed for females to organize new, creative activities, such as singing groups and theater per formances embedded in the women's own experiences.

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A total of 20 narrative formats were written to resemble theater scripts.

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Almost embarrassingly eager to let us know how much research he has done, he is the theater's ultimate teacher's pet, forever volunteering details.

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Also, the divestiture of theaters eliminated the studios' profits from their theater chains.

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Critics squirmed, but the public kept filling the theater.

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On the one hand, he recognizes the economic realities of the theater.

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Perceiving is an achievement of the individual, not an appearance in the theater of his consciousness.

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As with the echoic model, characteristics of the pretense and theater models are preserved by a framing account.

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Places in the public theater were allocated according to rank and class.

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In all the major theaters of operations, therefore, doctors were given local neuropsychiatric training in brief courses of one kind or another.

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That, above all else, is why we leave the theater so profoundly moved (p. 14).

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Meetings were often held in abandoned theaters and tickets gave the faithful admission to services.

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