operating theatre

1. 1.

   a room in a hospital equipped for the performance of surgical operations

   “great care is taken to keep the operating rooms aseptic”

   Synonymsoperating roomORoperating theatersurgery

   Broaderhospital room

Questions about operating theatre

What does operating theatre mean?

operating theatre means "a room in a hospital equipped for the performance of surgical operations".

What is another word for operating theatre?

Close synonyms include operating room, OR, operating theater, surgery. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is operating theatre a common word?

operating theatre is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.