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THEATERGOER
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Dictionary entry overview: What does theatergoer mean?
• THEATERGOER (noun)
The noun THEATERGOER has 1 sense:
1. someone who attends the theater
Familiarity information: THEATERGOER used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Someone who attends the theater
Classified under:
Nouns denoting people
Synonyms:
playgoer; theatergoer; theatregoer
Hypernyms ("theatergoer" 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 "theatergoer"):
first-nighter (someone habitually a spectator at the openings of theatrical productions)
groundling (in Elizabethan theater: a playgoer in the cheap standing section)
Holonyms ("theatergoer" is a member of...):
audience (a gathering of spectators or listeners at a (usually public) performance)
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