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PLAYGOER

Pronunciation (US):

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 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Someone who attends the theater

Synonyms:

playgoer; theatergoer; theatregoer

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

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)

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