theaterとは意味・読み方・使い方

語源

From Middle English theater, theatre, from Old French theatre, from Latin theatrum, from Ancient Greek θέατρον (théatron, “a place for viewing”), from θεάομαι (theáomai, “to see", "to watch", "to observe”). Doublet of tiatr.

発音

• (米国発音) IPA^(key): /ˈθi(ə)tɚ/, (sometimes) /ˈθɪə.tɚ/, [ˈθi(ə)ɾɚ]
  • (Canada, Southern American English) IPA^(key): /ˈθi(ə)tɚ/, /ˈθi.eɪ.tɚ/
  • (英国発音) IPA^(key): /ˈθiː.ə.tə/, /ˈθɪə.tə/, (somewhat dated) /θiˈɛt.ə/, (廃れた用法) /θiˈeɪ.tə/
  • (New Zealand) IPA^(key): /ˈθiətə/, [ˈθiə̯tɜ], [ˈθiə̯ɾɜ]
  

  the ancient theater (1) of Epidaurus

名詞

theater (countable かつ uncountable, 複数形 theaters) (米国用法 spelling)

1. 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.
2. A region where a particular action takes place; a specific field of action, usually with reference to war.
   • 2019, Colson Whitehead, The Nickel Boys, Fleet, page 69:

     Percy had been too big for the town since he got back from the war. He served in the Pacific theater, behind the lines keeping up the supply chain.

   His grandfather was in the Pacific theater during the war.

3. A lecture theatre.
4. (medicine) An operating theatre or locale for human experimentation.

   This man is about to die, get him into theater at once!

5. (US) A cinema.

   We sat in the back row of the theater and threw popcorn at the screen.

6. Drama or performance as a profession or art form.

   I worked in theater for twenty-five years.

7. Any place rising by steps like the seats of a theater.

使用する際の注意点

• The spelling theatre is the main spelling in British, Canadian, Australian and New Zealand English, with theater being rare.
• In United States English, theater accounts for about 80 percent of usage in the major corpus of usage, COCA.
• Among American theatre professionals, there is some usage of the two spellings in order to differentiate between the location theater (as in definitions 1–5) and the art-form theatre (definition 6). A variant of this differentiation is the usage of theatre for things relating to live performances (as in definitions 1 かつ 6) with theater being used for all other uses.

同意語

• fabulous invalid
• playhouse

派生語

参考

• Appendix:Glossary of theatre

アナグラム

• hat tree, hattree, teareth, tethera, theatre, thereat