theater
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.
Other meanings
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.”
A lecture theatre.
A kind of
- building
Kinds of theater
- cinema
- dinner theater
- home theater
- opera
Related words
- antitheater
- cybertheater
- intertheater
- microtheater
- minitheater
- multitheater
- nontheater
- paratheater
- posttheater
- pretheater
- theaterlike
- theatral
Example sentences
Word history
From Ancient Greek "θέᾱτρον" (a place for viewing).
Where this comes from
This definition is adapted from “theater” on Wiktionary, by its contributors; example sentences are from Tatoeba, credited to their authors above; related-word lists use Open English WordNet (CC BY 4.0, based on Princeton WordNet), published under CC BY-SA 4.0. This page is published under the same licence.