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名詞

theatre (countable and uncountable, plural theatres)

1. (chiefly Australia, Canada, New Zealand, UK, Hong Kong) Alternative spelling of theater.
   • 1921, Ben Travers, chapter 2, in A Cuckoo in the Nest, Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, Page & Company, published 1925, →OCLC:

     Mother […] considered that the exclusiveness of Peter's circle was due not to its distinction, but to the fact that it was an inner Babylon of prodigality and whoredom, from which every Kensingtonian held aloof, except on the conventional tip-and-run excursions in pursuit of shopping, tea and theatres.

   • 2012 May 13, Phil McNulty, “Man City 3-2 QPR”, in BBC Sport:

     City's players and supporters travelled from one end of the emotional scale to the other in those vital seconds, providing a truly remarkable piece of football theatre and the most dramatic conclusion to a season in Premier League history.

   • 2023 December 27, David Turner, “Silent lines...”, in RAIL, number 999, page 31:

     But the picture was different elsewhere - Theatre Royal Windsor recorded full houses, although the managing director stated that the actors had trouble getting to and from the theatre.

2. (Canada, South Asia, rarely Australia, New Zealand) A cinema; movie theatre.

使用する際の注意点

• The spelling theatre is the main spelling in British English, with theater being rare.
• The spelling theater is the predominant American spelling; it accounts for about 80% of usage in COCA (the major corpus of American English). People who work in the theatre industry in the United States, however, usually use the spelling "theatre", especially when writing about the art-form while retaining "theater" to write about the location. The spelling is also used often in advertising.

派生語

アナグラム

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