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theater

theater or theatre (thēʹə-tər) noun

Abbr. theat.

1. A building, room, or outdoor structure for the presentation of plays, films, or other dramatic performances.

2. A room with tiers of seats used for lectures or demonstrations: an operating theater at a medical school.

3. a. Dramatic literature or its performance; drama: the theater of Shakespeare and Marlowe. b. The milieu of actors and playwrights.

4. a. The quality or effectiveness of a theatrical production: good theater; awful theater. b. Dramatic material or the use of such material: "His summation was a great piece of courtroom theater" (Ron Rosenbaum).

5. The audience assembled for a dramatic performance.

6. A place that is the setting for dramatic events.

7. A large geographic area in which military operations are coordinated: the European theater during World War II.

 

[Middle English theatre, from Old French, from Latin theātrum, from Greek theatron, from theasthai, to watch, from thea, a viewing.]

Word History: Those who have theories about the theater are no doubt quite observant, at least the etymology of the word leads one to think so. The words theory and theater are related in ancestry if we look back to the Greek sources of our words. The Greek ancestor of theater is theatron,"a place for seeing, especially for dramatic representation, theater."Theatron is derived quite logically from the verb theasthai,"to gaze at, contemplate, view as spectators, especially in the theater," from thea,"a viewing." The Greek ancestor of theory is theōria, which meant among other things "the sending of theōroi (state ambassadors sent to consult oracles or attend games),""the act of being a spectator at the theater or games,""viewing,""contemplation by the mind," and "theory or speculation." The source of theōria, theōros,"an envoy sent to consult an oracle, spectator," is a compound of thea,"viewing," and -oros,"seeing." Thus, viewing is at the root of a theory and the theater.

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theater (n)
  • playhouse, auditorium, cinema, moviehouse, hall, lecture theater
  • drama, plays, dramatic art, the stage, acting, show business, thespianism, dramaturgy, dramatics, role-playing
  • sphere, focus, realm, scene, site, field, area, place