Word Meanings - GREENROOM - Book Publishers vocabulary database

The retiring room of actors and actresses in a theater.

Related words: (words related to GREENROOM)

• RETIRER
  One who retires.
• RETIREMENT
  1. The act of retiring, or the state of being retired; withdrawal; seclusion; as, the retirement of an officer. O, blest Retirement, friend of life's decline. Goldsmith. Retirement, rural quiet, friendship, books. Thomson. 2. A place of seclusion
• RETIRED
  1. Private; secluded; quiet; as, a retired life; a person of retired habits. A retired part of the peninsula. Hawthorne. 2. Withdrawn from active duty or business; as, a retired officer; a retired physician. Retired flank , a flank bent inward
• RETIRING
  1. Reserved; shy; not forward or obtrusive; as, retiring modesty; retiring manners. 2. Of or pertaining to retirement; causing retirement; suited to, or belonging to, retirement. Retiring board , a board of officers who consider and report upon
• THEATER; THEATRE
  1. An edifice in which dramatic performances or spectacles are exhibited for the amusement of spectators; anciently uncovered, except the stage, but in modern times roofed. 2. Any room adapted to the exhibition of any performances before
• RETIRADE
  A kind of retrenchment, as in the body of a bastion, which may be disputed inch by inch after the defenses are dismantled. It usually consists of two faces which make a reëntering angle.
• RETIRACY
  Retirement; -- mostly used in a jocose or burlesque way. Bartlett. What one of our great men used to call dignified retiracy. C. A. Bristed.
• RETIRE
  Etym: 1. To withdraw; to take away; -- sometimes used reflexively. He . . . retired himself, his wife, and children into a forest. Sir P. Sidney. As when the sun is present all the year, And never doth retire his golden ray. Sir J. Davies. 2. To
• FACTORSHIP
  The business of a factor.
• AMPHITHEATER; AMPHITHEATRE
  1. An oval or circular building with rising tiers of seats about an open space called the arena. Note: The Romans first constructed amphitheaters for combats of gladiators and wild beasts. 2. Anything resembling an amphitheater in form; as, a level