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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun The art of the theater, especially the writing of plays.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun The science which treats of the rules of dramatic composition and representation; the dramatic art.
  • noun Theatrical representation; histrionism.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun The art of dramatic composition and representation.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun theater The art of dramatic composition for the stage.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun the art of writing and producing plays

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