theatre
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 →
2) Theatre is also the work of writing and acting in plays. tree →
3) A movie theater (USA) is a cinema. tree →
4) An operating theatre is a room in a hospital where doctors do operations. tree →
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 →
- A ticket costs 8 dollars. tree →
- 300 people came to the theatre. tree →
- How many seats are empty? tree →
- We went to the theatre to see a pantomime. tree →
- The actors bowed and the theatre filled with clapping. tree →
- Our class put on a play in the school theatre. tree →
- The doctor took the patient into the operating theatre. tree →
- The theatre was his ideal world. tree →
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.
- Theatre can help people understand others' lives; since 2022 many theatres around the world have staged plays by and about Ukrainians.
- "Break a leg" is a theatre way of saying good luck.
- "Theatre of operations" is military jargon for a war zone.
- The Greeks invented theatre, with comedies and tragedies performed in great open-air theatres by actors wearing masks.
Trees and pragmatics
Every meaning and example of «theatre» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.