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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

n
1: a theater in which vaudeville is staged [syn: music hall, vaudeville theater, vaudeville theatre]
2: a variety show with songs and comic acts etc. [syn: vaudeville, music hall]

Merriam Webster's

noun Date: 1842 a vaudeville theater; also vaudeville

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Music box. See Musical box, under Musical. Music hall, a place for public musical entertainments. Music loft, a gallery for musicians, as in a dancing room or a church. Music of the spheres, the harmony supposed to be produced by the accordant movement of the celestial spheres. Music paper, paper ruled with the musical staff, for the use of composers and copyists. Music pen, a pen for ruling at one time the five lines of the musical staff. Music shell (Zo["o]l.), a handsomely colored marine gastropod shell (Voluta musica) found in the East Indies; -- so called because the color markings often resemble printed music. Sometimes applied to other shells similarly marked. To face the music, to meet any disagreeable necessity without flinching. [Colloq. or Slang]

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Music hall Music hall A place for public musical entartainments; specif. (Eng.), esp. a public hall for vaudeville performances, in which smoking and drinking are usually allowed in the auditorium.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

also music-hall(music halls) 1. Music hall was a popular form of entertainment in the theatre in the nineteenth and early twentieth century. It consisted of a series of performances by comedians, singers, and dancers. (mainly BRIT; in AM, usually use vaudeville) ...an old music hall song. N-UNCOUNT: oft N n 2. A music hall was a theatre that presented popular entertainment. (mainly BRIT; in AM, usually use vaudeville theater) N-COUNT

Moby Thesaurus

Elizabethan theater, Globe Theatre, Greek theater, amphitheater, arena, arena theater, assembly hall, auditorium, cabaret, chapel, circle theater, club, concert hall, convention hall, dance hall, exhibition hall, gallery, hall, house, lecture hall, little theater, meetinghouse, night spot, nightclub, opera, opera house, outdoor theater, playhouse, showboat, stadium, theater, theater-in-the-round, theatron