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# theatre

«theatre» in Mova's school dictionary: **a building where people watch plays, musicals, dances or…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (theatre, theatres; US spelling theater)

### meaning for a pupil

1) A theatre is a building where people watch plays, musicals, dances or shows on a stage. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/theatre/#m1)

2) Theatre is also the work of writing and acting in plays. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/theatre/#m2)

3) A movie theater (USA) is a cinema. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/theatre/#m3)

4) An operating theatre is a room in a hospital where doctors do operations. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/theatre/#m4)

### sense in the lessons

In school maths: seats in rows (rows × seats in a row), tickets sold, people watching a show, empty seats. In everyday life and drama: the school play, a pantomime at Christmas (UK), the stage, curtains, audience, actors. Phrases: «go to the theatre», «at the theatre», «theatre ticket», «front row».

### examples

- The theatre has 20 rows of 15 seats. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/theatre/#x1)
- A ticket costs 8 dollars. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/theatre/#x2)
- 300 people came to the theatre. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/theatre/#x3)
- How many seats are empty? [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/theatre/#x4)
- We went to the theatre to see a pantomime. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/theatre/#x5)
- The actors bowed and the theatre filled with clapping. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/theatre/#x6)
- Our class put on a play in the school theatre. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/theatre/#x7)
- The doctor took the patient into the operating theatre. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/theatre/#x8)
- The theatre was his ideal world. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/theatre/#x9)

### note

«Theatre» (UK, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Ireland), «theater» (USA). In the USA «movie theater» means cinema. Maths: seats in rows give multiplication; empty seats are total − taken. Trap: two shows means the seats count twice.

### In the corpora

- [Some theatres are tiny rooms, and some plays are "in the round", with the audience on all sides.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/arts/27-theatre-stage-actors-backstage/11/)
- [Theatre can help people understand others' lives; since 2022 many theatres around the world have staged plays by and about Ukrainians.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/arts/27-theatre-stage-actors-backstage/13/)
- ["Break a leg" is a theatre way of saying good luck.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/arts/40-show-day-the-exhibition-the-concert-and-the-big-arts-quiz/12/)
- ["Theatre of operations" is military jargon for a war zone.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/euphemisms/26-war-and-the-military/15/)
- [The Greeks invented theatre, with comedies and tragedies performed in great open-air theatres by actors wearing masks.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/12-ancient-greece-democracy-olympics-myths-and-thinkers/14/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «theatre» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/theatre/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.