Auditorium vs Theater - What's the difference?
auditorium | theater |
A large room for public meetings or performances.
The space where the audience is located.
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.
As nouns the difference between auditorium and theater
is that auditorium is a large room for public meetings or performances while 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.auditorium
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(wikipedia auditorium)Noun
(en-noun)theater
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Alternative forms
* 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.
