Auditorium Meaning
/ɔː.dɪˈtɔː.ɹi.əm/Definition, CEFR level B2, pronunciation, examples, and quiz.
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Definition
nounA large room for public meetings or performances.
nounThe space where the audience is located in a theater, etc.
Sentence Examples
I've staked out places for us in the front row of the auditorium.
The auditorium is terribly stained. It is, in part, due to acid rain.
The auditorium is filled to capacity with anxious applicants.
CEFR Practice Quiz
All students gathered in the large ____ to watch the principal's annual speech.
CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)
The school assembly was held in the large ____ after the lunch.
Word Origin & History
Borrowed from Latin audītōrium, from audītōrius (“pertaining to hearing”). Equivalent to auditory + -ium.
Literary Quotations & Historical Citations
"The Academy of Music is 204 feet in length and 114 feet in width at the auditorium part, and and 121 feet at the stage; hence covering an area of 24,020 square feet, of which 9,760 square feet are the area of the stage and its dependencies, and 14,260 square feet are appropriated to the auditorium, saloons, lobbies and so forth."
— 1854 October 7, Dwight's Journal of Music, volume VI, number 1, Boston, page 4:
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CEFR Practice Quiz
All students gathered in the large ____ to watch the principal's annual speech.
CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)
The school assembly was held in the large ____ after the lunch.