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auditorium

UK/ɔː.dɪˈtɔː.ɹi.əm/US/ˌɔ.dɪˌto.ɹi.əm/
nounB2Common in everyday speech and writing · #6,675 of 15,258leans written

Other forms: auditoriums, auditoria

An auditorium is the big seated hall where an audience watches the stage. A packed auditorium, leave the auditorium, the school auditorium.

The name is about hearing rather than seeing, and the shape of one is designed for sound first — the rake of the seats, the angle of the walls and the material of every surface are chosen to carry the voice. The Latin means a place for hearing.

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Definitions of auditorium

  1. 1nounauditoriumThe seated hall where an audience watches a stage.B2

    “The auditorium was packed, and people were standing at the back.”

auditorium is a hall.

Where it comes from

Latin auditorium means a place for hearing, from audire, to hear. Audience and audio are relatives.

  1. Proto-Indo-European

    *h₂ew-

  2. Latin

    audītōrium

  3. English, today

    auditorium

Built from

  • audītōrius · Latin — pertaining to hearing

Borrowed from Latin audītōrium. Borrowed from Latin audītōrium, from audītōrius (“pertaining to hearing”). Equivalent to auditory + ium.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA

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auditorium in the wild

  • The Pan-Pacific Auditorium was a privately owned auditorium in the Fairfax District of Los Angeles, California.

    Pan-Pacific Auditorium

  • For movie theaters, the number of auditoriums is expressed as the number of screens.

    Auditorium

  • A unique feature of the auditorium was that it was split into two; the front of the building was the Kiel Opera House.

    Kiel Auditorium

  • In 1955, the auditorium was the venue for the second international conference of Alcoholics Anonymous, which established the service conference structure for the movement.

    Kiel Auditorium

  • A concert hall is a cultural building with a stage that serves as a performance venue and an auditorium filled with seats.

    List of concert halls

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From Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0. These sentences were written by other people about their own subjects; they are here to show the word at work, not as anybody’s opinion.