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Commentary Index | Return to PrayerRequest.com | DownloadNoah Webster Dictionary (1913 edition): Theatre
Subjects in this Topic:
(1):
(n.) A place or region where great events are enacted; as, the theater of war.
(2):
(n.) That which resembles a theater in form, use, or the like; a place rising by steps or gradations, like the seats of a theater.
(3):
(n.) Any room adapted to the exhibition of any performances before an assembly, as public lectures, scholastic exercises, anatomical demonstrations, surgical operations, etc.
(4):
(n.) An edifice in which dramatic performances or spectacles are exhibited for the amusement of spectators; anciently uncovered, except the stage, but in modern times roofed.
(5):
(n.) A sphere or scheme of operation.