Theater
noun
1.
a building, part of a building, or outdoor area for housing dramatic presentations, stage entertainments, or motion-picture shows.
2.
the audience at a theatrical or motion-picture performance:
The theater wept.
3.
a theatrical or acting company.
4.
a room or hall, fitted with tiers of seats rising like steps, used for lectures, surgical demonstrations, etc.:
Students crowded into the operating theater.
5.
the theater, dramatic performances as a branch of art; the drama:
an actress devoted to the theater.
6.
dramatic works collectively, as of literature, a nation, or an author (often preceded by the):
the theater of Ibsen.
7.
the quality or effectiveness of dramatic performance:
good theater; bad theater; pure theater.
8.
a place of action; field of operations.
9.
a natural formation of land rising by steps or gradations.
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- Theater-of-operations
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- Theater-of-the-absurd
noun 1. theater in which standard or naturalistic conventions of plot, characterization, and thematic structure are ignored or distorted in order to convey the irrational or fictive nature of reality and the essential isolation of humanity in a meaningless world.