theatre

noun9

1. •
   a place where an audience sits facing a stage to watch plays, concerts and other events
2. •
   Drama or performance as a profession or art form.

   • I worked in theater for twenty-five years.
3. •
   A cinema.

   • We sat in the back row of the theater and threw popcorn at the screen.
4. •
   (Australia, rare) A cinema; movie theatre.
5. •
   (figurative) A conspicuous but unproductive display of action.

   • The Senate confirmation hearings were just theater.
6. •
   A region where a particular action takes place; a specific field of action, usually with reference to war.

   • His grandfather was in the Pacific theater during the war.
7. •
   An operating theatre or locale for human experimentation.

   • This man is about to die, get him into theater at once!
8. •
   A lecture theatre.
9. •
   Any place rising by steps like the seats of a theater.