THEATRE OF WAR

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does theatre of war mean? 

• THEATRE OF WAR (noun)
  The noun THEATRE OF WAR has 1 sense:

1. the entire land, sea, and air area that may become or is directly involved in war operations

  Familiarity information: THEATRE OF WAR used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• THEATRE OF WAR (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The entire land, sea, and air area that may become or is directly involved in war operations

Classified under:

Nouns denoting spatial position

Synonyms:

theater of war; theatre of war

Hypernyms ("theatre of war" is a kind of...):

region (a large indefinite location on the surface of the Earth)

Meronyms (parts of "theatre of war"):

field; field of operations; theater; theater of operations; theatre; theatre of operations (a region in which active military operations are in progress)

zone of interior (the part of the theater of war not included in the theater of operations)