Theater vs Antitheater - What's the difference?
theater | antitheater |
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) :
A region where a particular action takes place; a specific field of action, usually with reference to war.
A lecture theatre.
(medicine) An operating theatre or locale for human experimentation.
(US) A cinema.
Drama or performance as a profession or artform.
Works of theater that go against theatrical conventions
* {{quote-news, year=1993, date=February 5, author=Bill Wyman, title=Calendar, work=Chicago Reader
, passage=A.R.T. is a theater group, or rather an antitheater group. }}
As nouns the difference between theater and antitheater
is that theater is 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 while antitheater is works of theater that go against theatrical conventions.theater
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* theatre (standard spelling in all English-speaking countries except the USA)Noun
(en noun)- The theater is not merely the meeting place of all the arts, it is also the return of art to life.
- His grandfather was in the Pacific theater during the war.
- This man is about to die, get him into theater at once!
- We sat in the back row of the theater and threw popcorn at the screen.
- 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.See also
*Anagrams
* ----antitheater
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