Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A waiting room or lounge for the use of performers when they are offstage, as in a theater or concert hall.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun An apartment for drying damp or ‘green’ pottery before it is burned.
- noun A room near the stage in a theater, to which actors retire during the intervals of their parts in the play.
- noun A room in a warehouse where new or green cloth is received from the weaving factory.—
- noun A room in a medical college where the faculty meet to hold examinations, etc.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The retiring room of actors and actresses in a theater.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun Alternative spelling of
green room .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a backstage room in a theater where performers rest or have visitors
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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The function of poetry and the arts is to remind us that the greenroom is the greyest of illusions, and the reality is the drama presented before us, all its paint and tinsel, masks and pageantry, made one in art.
Creative Unity Rabindranath Tagore 1901
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If you had told Kambiz Hosseini 10 years ago, when he was a poor immigrant pumping gas in a small Oregon town, that one day Jon Stewart would bound eagerly into a greenroom looking for him and asking, Where are my dudes?
The Jon Stewarts of Iran Tara Bahrampour 2011
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But when we walk into a greenroom after sitting in a grimy, sweaty van for hours and see a month's worth of groceries sitting in coolers, it's like walking into heaven.
Jill Donenfeld: Band Bites: Goin' Veg with Beach Fossils Jill Donenfeld 2011
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She pulled Bianca aside in the greenroom before they went on.
O: A Presidential Novel Anonymous 2011
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But when we walk into a greenroom after sitting in a grimy, sweaty van for hours and see a month's worth of groceries sitting in coolers, it's like walking into heaven.
Jill Donenfeld: Band Bites: Goin' Veg with Beach Fossils Jill Donenfeld 2011
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They return to the greenroom several minutes later in order to squeeze in a few more minutes of practice.
Theo Spielberg: On The Road With Free Energy And The Postelles: Portland Theo Spielberg 2011
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She pulled Bianca aside in the greenroom before they went on.
O: A Presidential Novel Anonymous 2011
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In the show's greenroom, a 24-pack of shot-size cans of Red Bull awaited.
The Jon Stewarts of Iran Tara Bahrampour 2011
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They return to the greenroom several minutes later in order to squeeze in a few more minutes of practice.
Theo Spielberg: On The Road With Free Energy And The Postelles: Portland Theo Spielberg 2011
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But when we walk into a greenroom after sitting in a grimy, sweaty van for hours and see a month's worth of groceries sitting in coolers, it's like walking into heaven.
Jill Donenfeld: Band Bites: Goin' Veg with Beach Fossils Jill Donenfeld 2011
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