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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

[So called because such rooms were originally painted green.]

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