different between theatre vs stagecraft

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

English

Etymology

• 1880
• stage +? craft.

Noun

stagecraft (usually uncountable, plural stagecrafts)

1. (uncountable) The skills of the theater.

   To be a professional actor you need to learn stagecraft.

2. (countable) A specific skill of the theater.

   Lighting is a very technical stagecraft.

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