{"def":{"short":"a place for public show (\"theatre\"), i.e., general audience-room; by implication, a show itself (figuratively)","long":["a theatre, a place in which games and dramatic spectacles are exhibited, and public assemblies held (for the Greeks used the theatre also as a forum)","a public show",["metaphorically, a man who is exhibited to be gazed at and made sport of"]]},"deriv":"from G2300","pronun":{"ipa":"ˈθɛ.ɑ.tron","ipa_mod":"ˈθe̞.ɑ.trown","sbl":"theatron","dic":"THEH-ah-trone","dic_mod":"THAY-ah-trone"},"see":["G2300"]}