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Definition of Playgoer
1. Noun. Someone who attends the theater.
Group relationships: Audience
Specialized synonyms: First-nighter, Groundling
Generic synonyms: Looker, Spectator, Viewer, Watcher, Witness
Definition of Playgoer
1. n. One who frequents playhouses, or attends dramatic performances.
Definition of Playgoer
1. Noun. One who goes to plays; someone known to be a member of the audience at theatric productions. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Playgoer
1. one who attends the theater [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Playgoer
Literary usage of Playgoer
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Life of Charles Lamb by Edward Verrall Lucas (1907)
"... Spring of 1792 and Alice W The East India House—" Mr. Guy "—Lamb as a playgoer.
LAMB left Christ's Hospital on November 23rd, 1789, aged nearly fifteen. ..."
2. Imaginary Obligations by Frank Moore Colby (1908)
"PART IV ADVENTURES OF A playgoer ON SEEING TEN BAD PLAYS HAD I an artist's soul
I should be somewhat soured by what I have gone through. ..."
3. Reminiscences of J. L. Toole by John Lawrence Toole, Joseph Hatton (1889)
"A little London boy in the country—Truant and playgoer in the city—East-end and city
... playgoer ..."
4. Ainsworth's Magazine: A Miscellany of Romance, General Literature, & Art by William Harrison Ainsworth, George Cruikshank, Hablot Knight Browne (1854)
"John Philip Kemble—how gloriously that name rings in an old playgoer's ear!—no
need to write half a dozen lines here of him. He was long upon the old York ..."
5. The Life of Charles Lamb by Edward Verrall Lucas (1907)
"... Spring of 1792 and Alice W The East India House—" Mr. Guy "—Lamb as a playgoer.
LAMB left Christ's Hospital on November 23rd, 1789, aged nearly fifteen. ..."
6. Imaginary Obligations by Frank Moore Colby (1908)
"PART IV ADVENTURES OF A playgoer ON SEEING TEN BAD PLAYS HAD I an artist's soul
I should be somewhat soured by what I have gone through. ..."
7. Reminiscences of J. L. Toole by John Lawrence Toole, Joseph Hatton (1889)
"A little London boy in the country—Truant and playgoer in the city—East-end and city
... playgoer ..."
8. Ainsworth's Magazine: A Miscellany of Romance, General Literature, & Art by William Harrison Ainsworth, George Cruikshank, Hablot Knight Browne (1854)
"John Philip Kemble—how gloriously that name rings in an old playgoer's ear!—no
need to write half a dozen lines here of him. He was long upon the old York ..."
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