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Broadway vs Theater - What's the difference?

broadway | theater |

As nouns the difference between broadway and theater

is that broadway is an esplanade while theater is theater, theatre.

broadway

English

Proper noun

(-)
  • The wide road which runs diagonally through Manhattan, New York City.
  • The theater district of Manhattan.
  • The theatres in the Broadway theatre district; especially those covered by contracts between the owners and theatrical unions.
  • The American theater industry.
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  • (Manitoba, idiomatic) The government of Manitoba.
  • * 2009 , “Verbal vent at city hall: Councillors attack province, feds on their infrastructure priorities”, in Winnipeg Free Press , June 25:
    • Angry city councillors lashed out against both Broadway and Ottawa on Wednesday, claiming the Doer government and the Harper Conservatives are spending millions on infrastructure projects Winnipeg doesn't want and not enough on road repairs the city needs.

    Noun

  • (poker slang) The highest straight in poker, ace-king-queen-jack-ten.

    • Derived terms

    * Broadway stage * Broadway show * Broadway musical * off-Broadway, off-off-Broadway, off-off-off-Broadway

    See also

    * Sussex Drive

    Adjective

    (-)
  • Flashy; showy.

    • Quotations

    (English Citations of "Broadway")

    References

    * Weisenberg, Michael (2000) The Official Dictionary of Poker. MGI/Mike Caro University. ISBN 978-1880069523 * The Domesday Book (1086); section "Broadway, Somerset" http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/documentsonline/details-result.asp?Edoc_Id=7609338 * The Domesday Book (1086); section "Broadway, Worcestershire" http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/documentsonline/details-result.asp?Edoc_Id=7577729

    theater

    English

    Alternative forms

    * theatre (standard spelling in all English-speaking countries except the USA)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A place or building, consisting of a stage and seating, in which an audience gathers to watch plays, musical performances, public ceremonies, and so on.
  • * (rfdate) :
    • The theater is not merely the meeting place of all the arts, it is also the return of art to life.
  • 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.
  • A lecture theatre.
  • (medicine) An operating theatre or locale for human experimentation.
    • This man is about to die, get him into theater at once!
  • (US) A cinema.
    • We sat in the back row of the theater and threw popcorn at the screen.
  • Drama or performance as a profession or artform.
    • I worked in the theater for twenty-five years.

    Usage notes

    * The spelling (theatre) is the main spelling in British English, with (theater) being rare. * In United States English, (theater) accounts for about 80 percent of usage in the major corpus of usage, COCA.

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