Noun: theater
| Singular | theater |
| Plural | theaters |
Sample Sentences
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His grandfather was in the Pacific theater during the war.
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Percy had been too big for the town since he got back from the war. He served in the Pacific theater, behind the lines keeping up the supply chain. [2019, Colson Whitehead, The Nickel Boys, Fleet, page 69:]
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This man is about to die, get him into theater at once!
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We sat in the back row of the theater and threw popcorn at the screen.
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I worked in theater for twenty-five years.
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The Senate confirmation hearings were just theater.
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security theater; hygiene theater
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ACTA proponents rely on claims of a growing piracy and counterfeiting threat. In the absence of credible evidence of the threat or that the measures in ACTA will reduce the threat, ACTA is no more than enforcement theater. [2012, Andrew Rens, “Enforcement Theater: The Enforcement Agenda and the Institutionalization of Enforcement Theater in the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement”, in Suffolk Transnational Law Review, volume 35:]
Nouns inflected like theater
soldier's woundwort,
Nicosian,
whopper,
greypate,
tactile sign language,
chronotrope,
Rosie Lee,
dissentient,
photoinactivator,
sulphonediimine,
coastal waterfall,
residuary devise,
bituminization,
nitrosonaphthol,
smṛiti,
geosphere,
backscreen,
mensuralist,
flocculate,
flocculant, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
1. Etymology tree
2. Proto-Indo-European *dʰeyh₂-der.
3. Ancient Greek θεάομαι (theáomai)
4. Proto-Indo-European *-tḗr
5. Proto-Indo-European *-trom
6. Proto-Hellenic *-tron
7. Ancient Greek -τρον (-tron)
8. Ancient Greek θέᾱτρον (théātron)der.
9. Latin theātrumbor.
10. Old French teatrebor.
11. Middle English theater, theatre
12. English theater
13. Inherited from Middle English theater, theatre, from Old French theatre, from Latin theātrum, from Ancient Greek θέᾱτρον (théātron, “a place for viewing”), from θεᾰ́ομαι (theắomai, “to see", "to watch", "to observe”). Doublet of tiatr. See: Middle English Nouns '
theater', Middle English Nouns '
theater', Latin Nouns '
theātrum'.