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the|a|ter
the|a|ter «THEE uh tuhr», noun.
1. a place where plays or motion pictures are shown.
2. the audience; house.
3. a place that looks like a theater in its arrangement of seats: »

The surgeon performed an operation before the medical students in the operating theater.

4. a natural formation or other place suggesting a theater, such as a bowllike indentation of the ground with naturally terraced sides.
5. Figurative. a place of action: »

Europe was the theater of the First World War. Politicians are actors in the theater of public life.

6. a) plays; writing, acting in, or producing plays; drama; the stage: »

He was interested in the theater and tried to write plays himself.

b) a play, situation, dialogue, or part considered as to its effectiveness on the stage: »

This scene is bad theater.

Also, theatre.
╂[< Latin theātrum < Greek théātron < theâsthai to behold < théā a view]
Usage Theater is the preferred American spelling, but theatre is very commonly used in the names of theater houses.

Useful english dictionary. 2012.

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