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| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | business of plays |
| Synonyms: | drama, dramatics, dramaturgy, footlights, histrionics, histrionism, theater, theatrics, troupe |
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| Main Entry: | acting |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | entertaining, performing |
| Synonyms: | assuming, characterization, depiction, dramatics, dramatizing, enacting, enactment, feigning, hamming, histrionics, imitating, imitation, impersonation, improvisation, mime, mimicry, pantomime, performance, play acting, playing, portrayal, portraying, posing, posturing, pretending, pretense, putting, rendition, seeming, showing off, simulating, stagecraft, stooging, theatre, theatricals |
| Main Entry: | arena |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | area of activity |
| Synonyms: | battlefield, battleground, domain, field, province, realm, scene, sector, sphere, territory, theatre |
| Main Entry: | nightclub |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | place for evening entertainment |
| Synonyms: | bar, bistro, cabaret, café, casino, disco, discotheque, dive*, hideaway, honky-tonk, joint*, night spot, nightery, nitery, restaurant, roadhouse, saloon, speakeasy, spot, supper club, tavern, theatre, watering hole |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | theater |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | stage |
| Synonyms: | amphitheater, arena, assembly hall, auditorium, barn, boards, cinema, coliseum, concert hall, deck, drama, drive-in, footlights, hall, hippodrome, house, locale, movie, movie house, oak, odeum, opera house, playhouse, room, scene, show hall, site, theatre |
| Main Entry: | dramatics |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | theatrics |
| Synonyms: | acting, drama, dramaturgy, histrionics, stage, theater, theatre |
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| Main Entry: | acting |
| Part of Speech: | adjective, noun |
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Adjectives: |
Roscian, balatronic, buskined, comic, cothurnal, dramatic, farcical, histrionic, melodramatic, operatic, scenic, stagey, thalian, theatric, theatrical, tragi, tragic
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| Concept: | Arena. |
| Category: | 1. Conditional antagonism |
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-nouns
arena, field, platform; scene of action, theater; walk, course; hustings; stare, boards (playhouse); amphitheater; Coliseum, Colosseum; Flavian amphitheater, hippodrome, circus, race course, corso, turf, cockpit, bear garden, playground, gymnasium, palestra, ring, lists; tiltyard, tilting ground; Campus Martins, Champ de Allars; campus [U.S.]., theater of war, seat of war; battlefield, battleground; field of battle, field of slaughter; Aceldama, camp; the enemy's camp; trusting place (place of meeting).
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