LITTLE THEATRE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does little theatre mean? 

• LITTLE THEATRE (noun)
  The noun LITTLE THEATRE has 1 sense:

1. a small theater for experimental drama or collegiate or community groups

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• LITTLE THEATRE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A small theater for experimental drama or collegiate or community groups

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Synonyms:

little theater; little theatre

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

house; theater; theatre (a building where theatrical performances or motion-picture shows can be presented)

 Context examples 

Well, the jointure may comfort him; and perhaps, between friends, he began to tremble for his credit and his lungs in the Baron, and was not sorry to withdraw; and to make you amends, Yates, I think we must raise a little theatre at Mansfield, and ask you to be our manager.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)