different between playing vs theatre

English

Etymology

From Middle English playing; equivalent to play +? -ing.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?ple?.??/
• Rhymes: -e???

Noun

playing (plural playings)

1. (gerund of play) An occasion on which something, such as a song or show, is played.

Verb

playing

1. present participle of play

Anagrams

• plygain

Middle English

Alternative forms

• pleiingue, pleying, pleing, pleyynge, playinge, pleyinge, pleiing, plawyng, pleiyng, pleyenge

Etymology

From pleyen +? -ing.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?pl?i?in?/, /?pl?i??n?/, /pl?i?n?/

Noun

playing (plural playinges)

1. playing, having fun, entertainment, revelry.
2. The playing of a game or sport; ludic entertainment.
3. The participation or running of a play or performance.
4. (rare) The duration something is boiling for.
5. (rare) comedy, humour.

Descendants

• English: playing

References

• “pleiinge, ger.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-05-20.

Adverb

playing

1. (rare) jestfully

References

• “pleiinge, adv.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-05-20.

English

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• like theater

• Hyphenation: thea?tre
• Hyphenation: the?a?tre

Noun

theatre (countable and uncountable, plural theatres)

1. (chiefly Australia, Canada, New Zealand, Britain) Alternative spelling of theater

Usage notes

• 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.

Translations

Anagrams

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

Middle English

Noun

theatre

1. Alternative form of theater

Middle French

Etymology

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Noun

theatre m (plural theatres)

1. theatre

Old French

Noun

theatre m (oblique plural theatres, nominative singular theatres, nominative plural theatre)

1. Alternative form of teatre