PLAYGOER

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does playgoer mean? 

• PLAYGOER (noun)
  The noun PLAYGOER has 1 sense:

1. someone who attends the theater

  Familiarity information: PLAYGOER used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• PLAYGOER (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Someone who attends the theater

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

playgoer; theatergoer; theatregoer

Hypernyms ("playgoer" is a kind of...):

looker; spectator; viewer; watcher; witness (a close observer; someone who looks at something (such as an exhibition of some kind))

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "playgoer"):

first-nighter (someone habitually a spectator at the openings of theatrical productions)

groundling (in Elizabethan theater: a playgoer in the cheap standing section)

Holonyms ("playgoer" is a member of...):

audience (a gathering of spectators or listeners at a (usually public) performance)