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Definition: Theater |
TheaterNoun1. A building where theatrical performances or motion-picture shows can be presented; "the house was full". 2. The art of writing and producing plays. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "theater" was first used: sometime around 1380. (references) |
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Dream Interpretation | To dream of being at a theater, denotes that you will have much pleasure in the company of new friends. Your affairs will be satisfactory after this dream. If you are one of the players, your pleasures will be of short duration. If you attend a vaudeville theater, you are in danger of losing property through silly pleasures. If it is a grand opera, you will succeed in you wishes and aspirations. If you applaud and laugh at a theater, you will sacrifice duty to the gratification of fancy. To dream of trying to escape from one during a fire or other excitement, foretells that you will engage in some enterprise, which will be hazardous. Source: Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted .... |
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(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
Theater (also Theatre in British and Commonwealth English) is that branch of the performing arts concerned with acting out stories in front of an audience using combinations of speech, gesture, music, dance, sound and spectacle - indeed any one or more elements of the other performing arts. In addition to the standard narrative dialog style, theatre takes such forms as opera, ballet, mime, kabuki, chinese opera, and pantomime. Here is a list of acting terms.
Kinds of theater
"Drama" is that branch of theatre in which speech, either from written text (plays or "dramatic literature") or improvised, is paramount. "Musical theater" is a form of theatre combining music, songs, dance routines, and spoken dialogue. There is a particularly long tradition of political theater, intended to educate audiences on contemporary issues and encourage social change. Various creeds, Catholicism for instance, have built upon the entertainment value of theatre and created (for example) mystery plays and morality plays.There is an enormous variety of philosophies, artistic processes, and theatrical approaches to creating plays and drama. Some are connected to political or spiritual ideologies, and some are based on purely "artistic" concerns. Some processes focus on story, some on the theatre as event, some as theatre as a catalyst for social change. According to Aristotle's seminal theatrical critique Poetics, there are six elements necessary for theatre. They are Plot, Character, Idea, Language, Music, and Spectacle. The 17th-century Spanish writer Lope de Vega wrote that for theatre one needs "three boards, two actors, and one passion." Others notable for their contributtion to theatrical philosophy are Konstantin Stanislavski, Antonin Artaud, Bertolt Brecht, Orson Welles, Jerzy Grotowski.
20th Century American Playwrights
- Edward Albee
- Jane Anderson
- Christopher Durang
- Horton Foote
- Lorraine Hansberry
- George S Kaufmann
- Tony Kushner
- Neil LaBute (The Shape of Things)
- David Mamet
- Arthur Miller
- Terrence McNally
- Eugene O'Neill
- Neil Simon
- Stephen Sondheim
- Rodolfo Usigli
- Tennessee Williams
- Thornton Wilder
- August Wilson
- Lanford Wilson
20th Century British Playwrights
- Alan Ayckbourn
- Peter Barnes
- Caryl Churchill
- Michael Frayn (Noises Off)
- John Galsworthy
- David Hare
- Sarah Kane
- John Osborne
- Harold Pinter
- J.B. Priestley
- Terence Rattigan
- Tom Stoppard
20th Century German Language Playwrights
- Heiner Mueller
- Bertolt Brecht
- Thomas Bernhardt
- Elfriede Jelinek
- Friederich Durrenmatt
- Wolfgang Hildesheimer
20th Century Irish Playwrights
See also: Irish theatre
- Samuel Beckett
- Brendan Behan
- Paul Vincent Carroll
- Brian Friel
- Lady Gregory
- Denis Johnston
- John B. Keane
- Thomas Kilroy
- Martin McDonagh
- M. J. Molloy
- Sean O'Casey
- Lennox Robinson
- George Bernard Shaw
- George Shiels
- John Millington Synge
- W. B. Yeats
Other 20th Century English-language playwrights
This gives a brief listing of some of the better-known playwrights; but theatre is a highly collaborative, multi-person, multi-media craft. Plays are usually produced by a production team*artistic staff combined with various technical, support, and design staff. Among these are the director, scenic designer, the lighting designer, the costume designer, the dramaturge, and the stage manager and production manager. This is not an all inclusive list, and may include other personnel from the world of technical theatre.
- Athol Fugard
20th Century English Language Theatre Directors
- Julie Taymor
- Harold Prince
- Kelly Johnston
- Peter Sellars
- Tyrone Guthrie
- Peter Brook
- Mike Nichols
- Peter Hall
20th Century Russian and French Theatre Directors
- Konstantin Stanislavski
- Anton Artaud
20th Century Polish Theatre Director
- Jerzy Grotowski
20th Century German Language Theatre Directors
- Fritz Kortner
- Claus Peymann
- Peter Stein
- Peter Zadek
- Frank Castorf
- August Everding
- Max Reinhardt
Awards
See also*Repertory theatre, dramatist, list of dramatists, history of theatre, improvisational theatre, radio and television drama, summer stock, cinematic drama, suspension of disbelief
- European Theatre Award
- Laurence Olivier Awards (United Kingdom)
- Tony Award (USA)
Theater building
A theatre is also the building in which works and plays are performed. There are as many styles of performance space as there are styles of performance, but most theatres include a designated "stage" or playing space, a designated audience area or "house," and some sort of off-stage area for preparation and storage, called "backstage," which is typically concealed from the audience. Theatres range from ornate, cathedral-like structures to simple undecorated rooms or black box theatres.Some of these buildings are masterpieces of architecture. Others, often those known for opera, have become major cultural references and symbols.
The original Greek theatre was semicircular in form and was normally built on a hillside, often overlooking the sea. These theatres also typically included a "raked" or sloped stage, with the back of the stage being higher than the front. Such theatres were often constructed with excellent acoustics, so that a player standing centre stage could be clearly heard throughout the auditorium. The Romanss copied this style of building, but tended not to be so concerned about the location, being prepared to build walls and terraces instead of looking for a naturally-occurring site.
During the Elizabethan era in England, theatres were constructed of wood and were circular in form, like the Globe Theatre in London, home to William Shakespeare's troupe of actors. The Globe has now been rebuilt as a fully working and producing theatre near its original site (largely thanks to the efforts of film director Sam Wanamaker) to give modern audiences an idea of the environment for which Shakespeare and other playwrights of the period were writing.
Contemporary theatres are often non-traditional, such as very adaptable spaces, or theatres where audience and performers are not separated. A major example of this is the modular theatre, (see for example the Walt Disney Modular Theatre). This large theatre has floors and walls divided into small movable sections, with the floor sections on adjustable hydraulic pylons, so that the space may be adjusted into any configuration for each individual play. As new styles of theatre performance have evolved, so has the desire to improve or recreate performance venues. This applies equally to artistic and presentation techniques, such as stage lighting.
Specific designs of contemporary live theaters include proscenium, thrust, black box theater, theater in the round, amphitheater, and arena. A special kind of theater is one in a train carriage (picture). See also movie theater and puppet theater.
See also: Stagecraft,Technical theater, Theater Techniques, Opera house, Home Theater, Irish theatre
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Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Theater."
Synonyms: TheaterSynonyms: dramatic art (n), dramatics (n), dramaturgy (n), house (n), theatre (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Amusement | Place of amusement, theater; hall, concert room, ballroom, assemblyroom; music hall. |
Arena | Theater of war, seat of war; battle-field, battle-ground; field of battle, field of slaughter; Aceldama, camp; the enemy's camp; trusting place; (place of meeting). |
Noun: arena, field, platform; scene of action, theater; walk, course; hustings; stare, boards; (playhouse); amphitheater; Coliseum, Colosseum; Flavian amphitheater, hippodrome, circus, race course, corso, turf, bear garden, playground, gymnasium, palestra, ring, lists; tiltyard, tilting ground; Campus Martins, Champ de Allars; campus. | |
School | Pulpit, lectern, soap box desk, reading desk, ambo, lecture room, theater, auditorium, amphitheater, forum, state, rostrum, platform, hustings, tribune. |
The Drama | Theater; playhouse, opera house; house; music hall; amphitheater, circus, hippodrome, theater in the round; puppet show, fantoccini; marionettes, Punch and Judy. |
Noun: the drama, the stage, the theater, the play; film the film, movies, motion pictures, cinema, cinematography; theatricals, dramaturgy, histrionic art, buskin, sock, cothurnus, Melpomene and Thalia, Thespis. | |
Tribunal | Senate house, town hall, theater; House of Commons, House of Lords; statehouse, townhouse. |
Warfare | Battle array, campaign, crusade, expedition, operations; mobilization; state of siege; battlefield, theater of operations; (arena); warpath. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
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Screenplays | Remember, a real show, in a real theater, with a real audience (Moulin Rouge!; writing credit: Baz Luhrmann; Craig Pearce) Not if you want a theater in this lifetime (Seven Years in Tibet; writing credit: Becky Johnston) Look at you: member of the honor roll, assistant to the assistant manager of the movie theater. I'm tellin' ya, Rat, if this girl can't smell your qualifications, then who needs her, right (Fast Times at Ridgemont High; writing credit: Cameron Crowe.) The theatuh, the theatuh -- what book of rules says the theater exists only within some ugly buildings crowded into one square mile of New York City (All About Eve; writing credit: Joseph L. Mankiewicz) I'm done with theater. The playhouse is for dreamers (Shakespeare in Love; writing credit: Marc Norman; Tom Stoppard) | |
Lyrics | Would she go down on you in a theater (You Oughta Know; performing artist: Alanis Morissette) At Mann's Chinese Theater Show (Stole; performing artist: Kelly Rowland) You say you're happy but you're dozy in the theater (Lunatic To Love; performing artist: The Residents) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Theater Service (1974) Community Action Theater on Tour (1973) Backyard Theater (1972) Chuckwagon Theater (1969) Harlem Theater (1968) | |
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 | CDC clinic located at one time on the second floor of the Rialto Theater Building. Credit: CDC. |  | Diane Perasso demonstrates new capabilities of the Theater Battle Management Core Systems software package for Gen. Lester Lyles, commander of Air Force Materiel Command, and others after the ribbon-cutting ceremony for the experimental combined aerospace. |
 | A presentation of living history in the Leo Adler Theater showing life as a pioneer in early Oregon settlement. This is a program and for the background, a large historical map of Oregon. Credit: Unknown. |  | Theater performance --Browns & Mahush-- at the NHOTIC. Credit: BLM Staff. |
 | Bethel Movie Theater and Roadhouse. Credit: Alaska Historical Image Library. |  | City Theater (1901-05), Omsk, Russia. Credit: Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540. |
 | Theater Square, Grandfather Frost performs for 1999 New Year's, Arkhangelsk, Russia. Credit: Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540. |  | Theater of Opera and Ballet (1931-45; 1956), main portico, Novosibirsk, Russia. Credit: Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540. |
 | Globus Theater (around 1980), Novosibirsk, Russia. Credit: Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540. |  | Music and Drama Theater (1955), Petrazavodsk, Russia. Credit: Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA. |
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| "Stanley Theater" by Geoff Richardson Commentary: "Stanley Theater, Vancouver, BC, Canada. Movie theater." | "Mesa Theater" by Jim Blevins Commentary: "Mesa Theater Marque." |
Source: photographs selected by the editor, with permission from the photographers. | |
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 | A typical closing section to an American popular musical theater work. |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Author | Quotation |
Arthur Miller | I'm the end of the line; absurd and appalling as it may seem, serious New York theater has died in my lifetime. |
Arthur Schopenhauer | In early life, as we contemplate our coming life, we are like children in a theater before the curtain is raised, sitting there in high spirits and eagerly wating for the play to begin. |
Edwin Hubbel Chapin | No more duty can be urged upon those who are entering the great theater of life than simple loyalty to their best convictions. |
Francis Bacon | But men must know, that in this theater of man's life it is reserved only for God and the angels to be lookers on. |
Norman Vincent Peale | Promises are like crying babies in a theater, they should be carried out at once. |
Pythagoras | In this theater of man's life, it is reserved only for God and angels to be lookers-on. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | |
| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Business | The remainder was shared by other press and media, e.g. outdoor advertising and movie theater commercials. (references) | |
Civil Liberties | Georgia | In 1998 the theater group brought suit, claiming that the building was never a synagogue. (references) |
Thailand | Theater owners and broadcasters frequently censor films themselves before submitting them to the board. (references) | |
Georgia | In 1997 a court ordered that a former synagogue--rented from the Government by a theater group--be returned to the Jewish community. (references) | |
Economic History | Nicaragua | CINEMARK movie theater, U.S. capital. (references) |
Romania | Poetry and the theater play an important role in contemporary Romanian life. (references) | |
Italy | The rates for advertising vary according to the show time and class of the theater. (references) | |
Human Rights | Czech Republic | The case of a Brno city police officer charged with using excessive force to break up a late night party outside a theater in 1995 was awaiting a formal court decision at year's end. (references) |
Colombia | Some legal experts also have complained that the provisions that allow the Government to declare a zone a military theater of operations, in effect, give military commanders authority over regional civilian authorities. (references) | |
Minorities | Poland | In Poznan the theater founder was refused service in a restaurant in what she perceived to be a racially motivated incident. (references) |
Political Economy | JORDAN | Maximum working hours are 48 per week, with the exception of hotel, bar, restaurant, and movie theater employees, who may work up to 54 hours. (references) |
Travel | Australia | In major cities, opera, ballet, and theater companies perform throughout the year. (references) |
Mexico | Mexico City has a vibrant cultural life offering concerts, opera, and theater as well as art galleries and many museums. (references) | |
Women | Cote d'Ivoire | In the summer, the Manh-Boya theater troupe campaigned against FGM in Abidjan using dance and theater. (references) |
Worker Rights | Philippines | The law prohibits the employment of children under the age of 15, except under the direct and sole responsibility of parents or guardians, or in cases in which employment in cinema, theater, radio, or television is essential to the integrity of the production. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| Speaker | Phrase(s) |
Dennis Miller | Don't be the ass-cavity on the cell phone in the movie theater. |
Mary Tyler Moore | I just like the continue doing what I've been doing. A melange of funny, straight drama, television, movies, a little theater here and there wouldn't hurt. So if I can keep doing that, I'll be a very happy person. |
Sumner Redstone | Well, what killed it was several things. In the first place, when there was a drive-in the only place you could see a movie in the suburbs was in a drive-in theater. But the multiplexes provided comfortable movie viewing in the suburbs. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Speaker | Term | Phrase(s) |
James Madison | 1809-1817 | Happily, I shall carry with me from the public theater other sources, which those who love their country most will best appreciate. |
James Monroe | 1817-1825 | This country had, in fact, become the theater of every species of lawless adventure. |
Jimmy Carter | 1977-1981 | We are working closely with our European allies to secure the Host Nation Support necessary to enable us to deploy more quickly a greater ratio of combat forces to the European theater at a lower cost to the United States. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| "Theater" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 80.95% of the time. "Theater" is used about 21 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 80.95% | 17 | 85,106 |
| Noun (proper) | 19.05% | 4 | 175,879 |
| Total | 100.00% | 21 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "theater": arena theater ♦ digital theater systems ♦ fixed theater ♦ guerrilla theater ♦ home theater ♦ lecture theater ♦ little theater ♦ live theater ♦ marionette theater ♦ movie theater ♦ musical theater ♦ national theater ♦ Navy Theater Wide Defense ♦ operating theater ♦ picture theater ♦ puppet theater ♦ repertory theater ♦ street theater ♦ the theater ♦ theater commander ♦ theater company ♦ theater critic ♦ theater curtain ♦ theater director ♦ theater exchange ♦ theater goer ♦ theater in the round ♦ theater light ♦ theater nurse ♦ theater of operations ♦ theater of the absurd ♦ theater of war ♦ theater operational stocks ♦ theater prompter ♦ theater sister ♦ theater stage ♦ theater sterile supplies unit ♦ theater ticket ♦ traveling theater ♦ travelling theater ♦ variety theater ♦ vaudeville theater. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "theater": theater-bred, Theater-de-lys, Theater-erneuerungen, Theater-journal, theater-manager, theater-screen. | |
Ending with "theater": Juden-theater, Stadt-theater. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day | Expression | Frequency per Day |
movie theater | 12,799 | beacon theater | 911 |
home theater | 11,751 | chicago theater | 903 |
amc theater | 11,083 | edwards theater | 896 |
theater | 7,818 | new york theater | 891 |
home theater speaker | 4,084 | drive in theater | 858 |
dream theater | 1,620 | ahmanson theater | 768 |
home theater system | 1,585 | globe theater | 768 |
marcus theater | 1,542 | jones beach theater | 745 |
loews theater | 1,491 | orpheum theater | 698 |
theater london | 1,411 | star theater | 678 |
imax theater | 1,305 | carmike theater | 649 |
united artist theater | 1,295 | cinemark theater | 604 |
harkins theater | 1,221 | national theater | 589 |
amc movie theater | 1,197 | paramount theater | 584 |
theater ticket | 1,150 | pacific theater | 558 |
fox theater | 1,143 | lowes theater | 536 |
regal theater | 1,073 | home theater projector | 516 |
century theater | 1,072 | signature theater | 513 |
pantages theater | 1,061 | palace theater | 501 |
greek theater | 947 | forrest theater | 487 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Language | Translations for "theater"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | teatër (Playhouse, stage, theatre), sallë (assembly room, auditorium, hall, house, room, saloon, school, theatre, ward), arenë (arena, ring, scaffold, theatre). (various references) | |
Arabic | مسرح الأحداث (report, theatre), مسرح (dramatize, playhouse, scene, stage, theatre), مدرج (amphitheatre, scalar, stadium, theatre), قاعة المؤتمرات (theatre), قاعة السينما (theatre), قاعة الدراسة (theatre). (various references) | |
Asturian | teatru. (various references) | |
Basque | teatro. (various references) | |
Bulgarian | сценично изкуство (theatre), театър (boards, house, scene, shop, stage, theatre), операционна зала (operating room, theatre), арена (arena, cirque, lists, scene, theatre), амфитеатрална аудитория (theatre). (various references) | |
Cebuano | teyatro. (various references) | |
Chinese | 劇院 , 劇場 , 戲院 , 戲劇 (drama, play), 剧院. (various references) | |
Cornish | gwaryva. (various references) | |
Czech | loutkové divadlo (puppet show, puppet theater). (various references) | |
Danish | steriliseringsafdeling (theater sterile supplies unit, theatre sterile supply unit), fast teateropstilling (fixed seating, fixed theater), DTS (digital theater systems, digital theatre systems), digitalt biografformat (digital theater systems, digital theatre systems). (various references) | |
Dutch | vaste theateropstelling (fixed seating, fixed theater), sterilisatieafdeling (theater sterile supplies unit, theatre sterile supply unit), meespeeltheater (live theater, live theatre), digitaal theatersysteem (digital theater systems, digital theatre systems). (various references) | |
Faeroese | leikhús (theatre). (various references) | |
Farsi | تماشاخانه (Opera), تالارسخنرانی , بازیگرخانه . (various references) | |
Finnish | digitaaliset teatterijärjestelmät (digital theater systems, digital theatre systems). (various references) | |
French | théâtre (theatre). (various references) | |
Frisian | teater (theatre). (various references) | |
German | Theater (audience, carry on, drama, fuss, game, hassle, kerfuffle, palaver, scene, stage, theater US, theaters, theaters US, theatre, theatres, to-do), schauplatz (arena, locale, scene, showplace, stage, theatre). (various references) | |
Greek | θέατρο (dramatics, show, theatre). (various references) | |
Hebrew | בובטרון (marionette theater, puppetry). (various references) | |
Hungarian | színház (house, Playhouse, shop, stage, theatre). (various references) | |
Indonesian | bioskop (cinema, movie). (various references) | |
Inuktitut | kungiaqtittivik. (various references) | |
Irish | amharclann. (various references) | |
Italian | teatro (house, Playhouse, stage, theatre), scena (act, locale, scene, set, stage, theatre), sala operatoria (theatre), opere teatrali (theatre), luogo d'azione (theatre), arte drammatica (theatre). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 戦域 (battlefield, war area), シーンタフネス性 (ability of a video camera to hold a scene steady, cyan, Sears, Seattle). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | せんいき (battlefield, war area), シアター . (various references) | |
Kongo | fulu kia nsaka. (various references) | |
Korean | 극장 (theatre). (various references) | |
Macedonian | teatar. (various references) | |
Occitan | teatre. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | eaterthay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | teatro (playhouse, stage, theatre). (various references) | |
Portuguese Brazilian | teatro. (various references) | |
Provencal | teatre. (various references) | |
Romanian | teatru (acting, drama, footlights, histrionics, house, locale, Playhouse, scene, seat, stage, theatre), salã (audience, chamber, hall, house, room, saloon, theatre), literaturã dramaticã (theatre), dramaturgie (dramaturgy, theatre), amfiteatru la universitate (theatre). (various references) | |
Romansch | teater. (various references) | |
Romany | teatroos. (various references) | |
Russian | театр театральный, театр (house, playhouse, theatre), поле действий (theatre). (various references) | |
Samoan | faletifaga. (various references) | |
Sepedi | paesekopo. (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | teatar (theatre), pozorište (playhouse, stage, theatre), pozorišni (scenic, scenical, stage, stagey, stagy, theatre, theatrical). (various references) | |
Sicilian | teatru. (various references) | |
Spanish | teatro (legitimate, play, playacting, Playhouse, seat, stage, teatro, theatre). (various references) | |
Swedish | teater (Masquerade, play, Playhouse, stage, theatre), operationssal (operating theatre, surgery, theatre), hörsal (auditorium, recitation room, theatre). (various references) | |
Thai | โรงละคร (theatre), โรงภาพยนตร์ (theatre), การสร้างละคร (theatre), การละคร (theatre), ห้องบรรยาย (lyceum). (various references) | |
Turkish | tiyatro (play, Playhouse, theatre), sinema (cine-, cinema, cinematography, flicks, movie house, movie theater, movies, picture palace, picture theatre, pictures, silver screen, the movies, theatre), amfi (amphitheatre, lecture theater, lecture theatre, theatre), ameliyathane (operating room, operating theater, operating theatre, surgery, theatre), alan (acceptor, ambit, area, arena, buyer, compass, consignee, court, courtyard, domain, extent, field, maidan, pitch, plaza, public square, purchaser, range, reach, realm, recipient, region, scope, space, sphere, square, susceptive, theatre, tract, yard). (various references) | |
Turkmen | kinoteatr (r) (theater (film)). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | театр (stage, theatre). (various references) | |
Welsh | chwaraedy (playhouse). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Greek | 700 BCE-300 CE | theatron. (various references) |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | caveam, theatrum. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| Language | Date | Source | Acts Chapter 19, Verse 31 |
| Greek (transliterated) | 250 BC | Septuagint | TineV de kai twn asiarcwn onteV autw filoi pemyanteV proV auton parekaloun mh dounai eauton eiV to qeatron |
| Latin | 405 | Vulgate | Quidam autem et de Asiae principibus qui erant amici eius miserunt ad eum rogantes ne se daret in theatrum |
| Middle English | 1395 | Wyclif | And also summe of the princis of Asie, that weren hise freendis, senten to him. and preieden, that he schulde not yyue hym silf in to the teatre. |
| Renaissance English | 1526 | Tyndale | Certayne also of ye chefe of Asia which were his frendes sent vnto him desyrynge him that he wolde not preace into the comen hall. |
| Jacobean English | 1611 | King James | And certain of the chief of Asia, which were his friends, sent unto him, desiring him that he would not adventure himself into the theatre. |
| Victorian English | 1833 | Webster | And certain of the chief of Asia, who were his friends, sent to him, desiring him that he would not adventure himself into the theater. |
| Basic English | 1964 | Ogden | And some of the rulers of Asia, being his friends, sent to him, requesting him seriously not to put himself in danger by going into the theatre. |
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| Language | Acts Chapter 19, Verse 31 |
| Albanian | Edhe disa Aziarkë, që ishin miq të tij, i çuan për ta lutur të mos dilte në teatër. |
| Cebuano | ug ang pipila usab sa mga punoan sa Asia nga iyang mga higala, nagsugo ngadto kaniya sa paghangyo nga dili unta niya pangahasan ang pagsulod sa tiyatro. |
| Croatian | Èak i neki azijarsi, njegovi prijatelji, poslaše k njemu i zamoliše da ne dolazi u kazalište. |
| Danish | Men også nogle af Asiarkerne, som vare hans Venner, sendte Bud til ham og formanede ham til ikke at vove sig hen til Teatret. |
| Dutch | En sommigen ook der oversten van Azie, die hem vrienden waren, zonden tot hem, en baden, dat hij zichzelven op de schouwplaats niet zou begeven. |
| Finnish | Ja myös muutamat Aasian hallitusmiehistä, jotka olivat hänen ystäviään, lähettivät hänelle sanan ja pyysivät, ettei hän menisi näytelmäpaikkaan. |
| French | quelques-uns même des Asiarques, qui étaient ses amis, envoyèrent vers lui, pour l`engager à ne pas se rendre au théâtre. |
| German | Auch etliche der Obersten in Asien, die des Paulus gute Freunde waren, sandten zu ihm und ermahnten ihn, daß er sich nicht begäbe auf den Schauplatz. |
| Hungarian | És az ázsiai fõpapok közül is némelyek, kik barátai valának néki, küldvén õ hozzá, kérék, hogy ne menjen a színházba. |
| Indonesian-Bahasa Sehari-hari | Beberapa pembesar provinsi Asia itu pun, yang bersahabat dengan Paulus, menyuruh orang memberitahukan kepada Paulus supaya ia jangan memperlihatkan diri di stadion itu. |
| Indonesian-Terjemahan Lama | Maka ada pula beberapa penghulu Asia, yang bersahabat dengan Paulus itu berpesan kepadanya minta jangan ia berani masuk ke tempat tamasya itu. |
| Italian | Anche alcuni dei capi della provincia, che gli erano amici, mandarono a pregarlo di non avventurarsi nel teatro. |
| Maori | Na ka unga tangata mai etahi o nga rangatira o Ahia, i pai nei ki a ia, ka mea kia kaua ia e tuku i a ia ki roto ki te whare matakitaki. |
| Norwegian | også nogen av asiarkene, som var hans venner, sendte bud til ham og bad ham at han ikke måtte gå inn i teatret. |
| Portuguese | Também alguns dos asiarcas, sendo amigos dele, mandaram rogar-lhe que não se arriscasse a ir ao teatro. |
| Rumanian | Chiar wi unii din mai marii Asiei, cari -i erau prieteni, au trimes la el sq -l roage sq nu se ducq la teatru. |
| Russian | фБЛЦЕ Й ОЕЛПФПТЩЕ ЙЪ бУЙКУЛЙИ ОБЮБМШОЙЛПЧ, ВХДХЮЙ ДТХЪШСНЙ ЕЗП, РПУМБЧ Л ОЕНХ, РТПУЙМЙ ОЕ РПЛБЪЩЧБФШУС ОБ ЪТЕМЙЭЕ. |
| Shuar | Tura Asia nunkanmaya uuntri, Páprun amikri ásar, ainkia wayawain tusar chichaman akuptukarmiayi. |
| Spanish | También algunas de las autoridades de Asia, que eran sus amigos, enviaron a él y le rogaron que no se presentara en el teatro. |
| Swahili | Maofisa wengine wa huo mkoa wa Asia, waliokuwa rafiki zake, walimtumia Paulo ujumbe wakimsihi asijihatarishe kwa kwenda kwenye ukumbi wa michezo. |
| Swedish | Också några asiarker, som voro hans vänner, sände bud till honom och bådo honom att han icke skulle giva sig in på skådebanan. |
| Uma | Wae wo'o, ba hangkuja dua maradika hi propinsi Asia to mpobale-ki Paulus mpohubui tauna hilou mpo'uli' -ki bona neo' -i hilou hi poromua toe. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "theater": theatergoer, theatergoers, theatergoing, theatergoings, theaters. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "theater": amphitheater, pretheater. (additional references) | |
Words containing "theater": amphitheaters. (additional references) | |
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"Theater" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: otaheite, teater, Teatre, thaer, thater, thearter, theata, theated, theaten, theather, theator, theatr, theayter, theorer, theoret, theoter, thiter, wheater. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "theater" (pronounced thē"uter) |
| 5 | th ē" u t er | theatre. |
| 3 | -u t er | editor, elater, accelerometer, altimeter, Amphitheater, anemometer, arbiter, auditor, barometer, capacitor, catheter, comparator, competitor, conservator, conspirator, contributor, creditor, densitometer, depositor, diameter, distributor, estimator, executor, exhibitor, fluorometer, goniometer, hydrometer, hygrometer, inheritor, inhibitor, inquisitor, interferometer, interlocutor, interpreter, janitor, kilometer, magnetometer, marketer, micrometer, monitor, odometer, orator, orbiter, parameter, perimeter, photometer, picketer, polarimeter, predator, progenitor, proprietor, quieter, rioter, Sen, senator, sequitur, solicitor, spectrometer, speedometer, telemarketer, tensiometer, thermometer, trumpeter, visitor. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: theatre, thereat. | |
| Words within the letters "a-e-e-h-r-t-t" | |
-1 letter: aether, hatter, heater, hereat, reheat, tether, threat. | |
-2 letters: arete, earth, eater, ether, hater, heart, rathe, tater, teeth, tetra, there, theta, three, treat. | |
-3 letters: eath, haet, hare, hart, hate, hear, heat, here, rate, rath, rete, rhea, tahr, tare, tart, tate, tear, teat, teth, thae, that, thee, tree, tret. | |
-4 letters: are, art, ate, att, ear, eat. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-e-e-h-r-t-t" | |
+1 letter: catheter, earthset, theaters, theatres, threated, threaten. | |
+2 letters: catheters, chattered, chatterer, earthiest, earthsets, entrechat, heartbeat, heartfelt, heartiest, hesitater, ratcheted, shattered, threatens, tracheate. | |
+3 letters: altogether, breathiest, chatterers, earthliest, entrechats, hartebeest, heartbeats, heatstroke, heptameter, hesitaters, heteroatom, letterhead, pretheater, reattached, reattaches, stealthier, stepfather, sweetheart, tachometer, tetherball, tetrahedra, thereabout, thereafter, threadiest, threatened, threatener, tracheated, triathlete, turtlehead. | |
+4 letters: altogethers, catheterize, enteropathy, erythorbate, ethereality, exhortative, featheriest, hartebeests, harvesttime, hearthstone, heatstrokes, heptameters, heteroatoms, heterograft, leatherette, letterheads, northeaster, orchestrate, parenthetic, paresthetic, softhearted, southeaster, steatorrhea, stepfathers, stretchable, sweethearts, tachometers, tetherballs, tetrahedral, tetrahedron, tetrahymena, tetrarchies, theatergoer, theorematic, theoretical, therapeutic, thereabouts, therewithal, thermotaxes, threateners, threatening, triathletes, truehearted, turtleheads, ultraheated, weathercast. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Crosswords 4. Usage: Modern | 5. Usage: Commercial 6. Images: Slideshow 7. Images: Photo Album 8. Images: Digital Art | 9. Sounds 10. Quotations: Familiar 11. Quotations: Non-fiction 12. Quotations: Spoken | 13. Quotations: Speeches 14. Usage Frequency 15. Expressions 16. Expressions: Internet | 17. Translations: Modern 18. Translations: Ancient 19. Bible Trace 20. Derivations | 21. Rhymes 22. Anagrams 23. Bibliography |
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