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Hippodrome vs Theatre - What's the difference?

hippodrome | theatre |

As nouns the difference between hippodrome and theatre

is that hippodrome is a horse racing course while theatre is (australia|canada|nz|uk).

As a verb hippodrome

is (baseball) to stage a baseball game to suit gamblers.

hippodrome

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • A horse racing course.

    • Verb

  • (baseball) To stage a baseball game to suit gamblers.

    • See also

    * (dab) * hippo- * -drome ----

    theatre

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (Australia, Canada, NZ, UK)
  • * {{quote-book, year=1922, author=(Ben Travers), title=(A Cuckoo in the Nest)
    • , chapter=2 citation , passage=Mother
  • * {{quote-news, year=2012, date=May 13, author=Phil McNulty, work=BBC Sport
    • , title= Man City 3-2 QPR , passage=City's players and supporters travelled from one end of the emotional scale to the other in those vital seconds, providing a truly remarkable piece of football theatre and the most dramatic conclusion to a season in Premier League history.}}
  • (US)

    • Usage notes

    * The spelling being rare. * The spelling theater is the predominant American spelling; it accounts for about 80% of usage in COCA (the major corpus of American English). People who work in the theatre industry in America, however, usually use the spelling "theatre". The spelling is also used often in advertising.

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