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# theatre

noun (theatre, theatres; US spelling theater)

«theatre» in the English dictionary: everyday — its meanings, how the lessons use it, and examples, each with its tree on Mova.

## Everyday

1. A theatre is a building where people watch plays, musicals, dances or shows on a stage. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/theatre/#m1)
2. Theatre is also the work of writing and acting in plays. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/theatre/#m2)
3. A movie theater (USA) is a cinema. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/theatre/#m3)
4. An operating theatre is a room in a hospital where doctors do operations. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/theatre/#m4)

### In the lessons

In school maths: seats in rows (rows × seats in a row), tickets sold, people watching a show, empty seats. In everyday life and drama: the school play, a pantomime at Christmas (UK), the stage, curtains, audience, actors. Phrases: «go to the theatre», «at the theatre», «theatre ticket», «front row».

### Examples

- The theatre has 20 rows of 15 seats. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/theatre/#x1)
- A ticket costs 8 dollars. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/theatre/#x2)
- 300 people came to the theatre. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/theatre/#x3)
- How many seats are empty? [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/theatre/#x4)
- We went to the theatre to see a pantomime. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/theatre/#x5)
- The actors bowed and the theatre filled with clapping. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/theatre/#x6)
- Our class put on a play in the school theatre. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/theatre/#x7)
- The doctor took the patient into the operating theatre. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/theatre/#x8)
- The theatre was his ideal world. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/theatre/#x9)

### Note

«Theatre» (UK, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Ireland), «theater» (USA). In the USA «movie theater» means cinema. Maths: seats in rows give multiplication; empty seats are total − taken. Trap: two shows means the seats count twice.

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of «theatre» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/theatre/): every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
- [«theatre» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/school/w/theatre.html) on Mova free.