Usually means: Performance art involving live actors.
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We found 37 dictionaries that define the word theater:

General (29 matching dictionaries)
  1. theater: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. theater, the theater: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. theater: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. theater: Collins English Dictionary
  5. Theater, theater: Wordnik
  6. theater: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  7. theater: Wiktionary
  8. theater: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. theater (theatre): The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  10. theater: Infoplease Dictionary
  11. theater, the theater: Dictionary.com
  12. theater: Online Etymology Dictionary
  13. theater: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  14. Theater (building), Theater (military), Theater (song), Theater (structure), Theater (warfare), Theater: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  15. Theater: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  16. theater: Rhymezone
  17. Theater-, Theater (nt), theater, theater (het): AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  18. theater: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  19. theater: Free Dictionary
  20. theater: Mnemonic Dictionary
  21. theater: LookWAYup Translating Dictionary/Thesaurus
  22. theater: Dictionary/thesaurus
  23. theater: Vocabulary.com

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. theater: ArtLex Lexicon of Visual Art Terminology

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. theater: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. theater: Encyclopedia

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
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  2. theater: Medical dictionary

Science (1 matching dictionary)
  1. theater: Archaeology Wordsmith

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. theater: Urban Dictionary

Tech (1 matching dictionary)
  1. DOD Dictionary of Military Terms (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  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.
noun:  A region where a particular action takes place; a specific field of action, usually with reference to war.
noun:  A lecture theatre.
noun:  (medicine) An operating theatre or locale for human experimentation.
noun:  (US) A cinema.
noun:  Drama or performance as a profession or art form.
noun:  Any place rising by steps like the seats of a theater.
noun:  (figurative, derogatory, often following a noun used attributively) A conspicuous but unproductive display of action.

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