Theater vs Theatrical - What's the difference?
theater | theatrical |
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.
Of or relating to the theatre.
* 12 July 2012 , Sam Adams, AV Club Ice Age: Continental Drift
Fake and exaggerated.
As nouns the difference between theater and theatrical
is that theater is theater, theatre while theatrical is a stage performance, especially one by amateurs.As an adjective theatrical is
of or relating to the theatre.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.
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
* ----theatrical
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Adjective
(en adjective)- The matter of whether the world needs a fourth Ice Age movie pales beside the question of why there were three before it, but Continental Drift feels less like an extension of a theatrical franchise than an episode of a middling TV cartoon, lolling around on territory that’s already been settled.