theater

Etymology
From, , from , from , from , from. .

Pronunciation

 * , [ˈθi(ə)ɾɚ]



Noun

 * 1) 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.
 * 2) A region where a particular action takes place; a specific field of action, usually with reference to war.
 * 3) A lecture theatre.
 * 4)  An operating theatre or locale for human experimentation.
 * 5)  A cinema.
 * 6) Drama or performance as a profession or art form.
 * 7) Any place rising by steps like the seats of a theater.
 * 8)  A conspicuous but unproductive display of action.
 * 1) Drama or performance as a profession or art form.
 * 2) Any place rising by steps like the seats of a theater.
 * 3)  A conspicuous but unproductive display of action.
 * 1) Any place rising by steps like the seats of a theater.
 * 2)  A conspicuous but unproductive display of action.

Usage notes

 * The spelling is the main spelling in British, Canadian, Australian and New Zealand English, with  being rare.
 * In United States English, accounts for about 80 percent of usage in the major corpus of usage, COCA.
 * Some American theatre professionals may use the two spellings to differentiate between the location and the art-form . Alternatively, some people use  for things relating to live performances (and sometimes films and cinemas) like musical theatre, with  being used for other uses (such as a theater of war).

Translations

 * Afrikaans: teater
 * Albanian:
 * Amharic: ቴያትር
 * Arabic: مَسْرَح
 * Egyptian Arabic: مسرح, تياترو
 * Armenian:
 * Assamese: থিয়েটাৰ
 * Asturian:
 * Azerbaijani:, , tiyatır
 * South Azerbaijani: تياترو, تياتر
 * Bashkir: театр
 * Basque:
 * Belarusian: тэа́тр, тэа́тар
 * Bengali: মঞ্চনাটক,
 * Bulgarian:
 * Burmese: ,
 * Carpathian Rusyn: теа́тр
 * Catalan:
 * Chinese:
 * Cantonese: 劇場, 劇院
 * Hokkien: ,
 * Mandarin: ,
 * Corsican: teatru
 * Czech:
 * Danish:
 * Dutch:
 * East Central German: Dhejador
 * Esperanto: teatrejo
 * Estonian: teater
 * Faroese: sjónleikarhús
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * Georgian: თეატრი
 * German:, Schauspielhaus, , Theaterhaus
 * Greek:
 * Ancient: θέατρον
 * Greenlandic: isiginnaartitsisarfik
 * Haitian Creole: teyat
 * Hebrew:
 * Hindi:, रंगमंच
 * Hungarian:
 * Icelandic: leikhús
 * Indonesian:
 * Irish:
 * Istriot: taiatro
 * Italian:
 * Japanese:, シアター
 * Kalmyk: җөҗг
 * Kannada: ,
 * Kashubian: téater
 * Kazakh:
 * Khmer: រោងល្ខោន
 * Korean:
 * Kyrgyz:
 * Lao:
 * Latin: theātrum
 * Latvian:
 * Limburgish: teater
 * Lithuanian: teatras, vaidykla
 * Macedonian: теа́тар
 * Malagasy:
 * Malay: teater
 * Malayalam: രംഗകല, തിയേറ്റർ
 * Maltese:
 * Maori: whare tapere, whare purei
 * Marathi:, नाट्यमंदिर
 * Mongolian:
 * Cyrillic:
 * Mongolian: ᠲᠢᠶᠠᠲ᠋ᠷ
 * Norman: thiâtre, théyâte , théatre
 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål:
 * Nynorsk: teater
 * Odia: ଥିଏଟର
 * Old English: pleġhūs
 * Pashto:, نندارځى
 * Persian:
 * Iranian Persian: ,
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian:
 * Russian:
 * Scottish Gaelic: taigh-cluiche, talla-cluiche
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: теа́тар, позориште, ка̀залӣште
 * Roman:, ,
 * Silesian: tyjater
 * Sinhalese: නාට්‍ය කලාව
 * Slovak:
 * Slovene:
 * Sorbian:
 * Lower Sorbian: źiwadło
 * Upper Sorbian:
 * Spanish:
 * Swahili:, thiata
 * Swedish:
 * Tagalog: teatro, dulaan
 * Tajik:
 * Tamil:
 * Tatar: театр
 * Telugu: నాటకరంగం, థియేటర్
 * Thai: โรงละคร
 * Tibetan: ཟློས་གར
 * Tigrinya: ትያትር
 * Tocharian B: rānk
 * Turkish: ,
 * Turkmen: teatr
 * Ukrainian:
 * Urdu: تِھئیٹَر, تھیٹَر, تِھیَٹَر, تِھیئَٹَر
 * Uyghur: تىياتىر, تىياتىرخانا
 * Uzbek:
 * Vietnamese:
 * Volapük:
 * Walloon:
 * Welsh:
 * Yiddish: טעאַטער
 * Zhuang: heiqciengz, yienh


 * Bulgarian:
 * Catalan:
 * Finnish:
 * Indonesian:
 * Spanish:


 * Bulgarian: амфитеатра́лна аудито́рия
 * Catalan:
 * Finnish:
 * Greek:
 * Romanian:


 * Arabic: مَسْرَح
 * Armenian:
 * Asturian:
 * Bulgarian:
 * Catalan:
 * Czech:
 * Dutch:
 * Finnish: ,
 * French:
 * Hungarian:
 * Ido:
 * Kannada: ,
 * Lao: ລະຄອນ
 * Persian:
 * Iranian Persian: ,
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian:
 * Russian:
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish:
 * Thai:
 * Volapük:
 * Walloon:


 * Maltese:
 * Serbo-Croatian:, , ,

Etymology
Borrowed from, from , from , from , from.

Noun

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

Etymology
From, from , from.

Noun

 * 1) A theatre open to the sky; an amphitheatre.
 * 2) Any stage which plays and performances take place at.
 * 3)  A whorehouse.