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the⋅a⋅tre

  [thee-uh-ter, theeuh-]
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the⋅a⋅ter

  [thee-uh-ter, theeuh-]
–noun
1. a building, part of a building, or outdoor area for housing dramatic presentations, stage entertainments, or motion-picture shows.
2. the audience at a theatrical or motion-picture performance: The theater wept.
3. a theatrical or acting company.
4. a room or hall, fitted with tiers of seats rising like steps, used for lectures, surgical demonstrations, etc.: Students crowded into the operating theater.
5. the theater, dramatic performances as a branch of art; the drama: an actress devoted to the theater.
6. dramatic works collectively, as of literature, a nation, or an author (often prec. by the): the theater of Ibsen.
7. the quality or effectiveness of dramatic performance: good theater; bad theater; pure theater.
8. a place of action; field of operations.
9. a natural formation of land rising by steps or gradations.
Also, theatre.

Origin:
1325–75; ME theatre < L theātrum < Gk théātron seeing place, theater, equiv. to theā-, s. of theâsthai to view + -tron suffix denoting means or place

Synonyms:
8. arena, site, stage, setting, scene.

Pronunciation note:
Theater, an early Middle English borrowing from French, originally had its primary stress on the second syllable: [Fr. tey-ah-truh ] . As with many early French borrowings (beauty, carriage, marriage), the stress moved to the first syllable, in conformity with a common English pattern of stress, and this pattern remains the standard one for theater today: [thee-uh-ter, theeuh-]. A pronunciation with stress on the second syllable and the [ey] vowel: [thee-ey-ter] or sometimes [thee-ey-ter] is characteristic chiefly of uneducated speech.
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the·a·ter or the·a·tre   (thē'ə-tər)   
n.  
  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.
    1. Dramatic literature or its performance; drama: the theater of Shakespeare and Marlowe.
    2. The milieu of actors and playwrights.
    3. The quality or effectiveness of a theatrical production: good theater; awful theater.
    4. Dramatic material or the use of such material: "His summation was a great piece of courtroom theater" (Ron Rosenbaum).
    1. The quality or effectiveness of a theatrical production: good theater; awful theater.
    2. 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 theātron, from theāsthai, to watch, from theā, a viewing.]
Word History: Theories about the development of the theater in the West generally begin with Greek drama; this is etymologically appropriate as well as historically correct, since the words theory and theater are related through their Greek sources. The Greek ancestor of theater is theātron, "a place for seeing, especially for dramatic representation, theater." Theātron is derived from the verb theāsthai, "to gaze at, contemplate, view as spectators, especially in the theater," from theā, "a viewing." The Greek ancestor of theory is theōriā, 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 theōriā is theōros, "an envoy sent to consult an oracle, spectator," a compound of theā, "viewing," and -oros, "seeing." It is thus fitting to elaborate theories about culture while seeing a play in a theater.
the·a·tre   (thē'ə-tər)   
n.  Variant of theater.
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Theatre

only mentioned in Acts 19:29, 31. The ruins of this theatre at Ephesus still exist, and they show that it was a magnificent structure, capable of accommodating some 56,700 persons. It was the largest structure of the kind that ever existed. Theatres, as places of amusement, were unknown to the Jews.

Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary
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Language Translation for : theatre
Spanish: teatro,
German: das Theater,
Japanese: 劇場
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