auditorium
noun
au·di·to·ri·um
ˌȯ-də-ˈtȯr-ē-əm 
plural auditoriums or auditoria
ˌȯ-də-ˈtȯr-ē-ə
1
: the part of a public building where an audience sits
2
: a room, hall, or building used for public gatherings
Examples of auditorium in a Sentence
will hold the town meeting in the high school auditorium
Recent Examples on the Web
Maintain a safe distance from windows and avoid seeking refuge in large open rooms like cafeterias, gymnasiums, or auditoriums.
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Star-Telegram Bot, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 28 Apr. 2024
The tennis film also gets extra revenue from tickets for premium large-format auditoriums, including some Imax screens.
—J. Kim Murphy, Variety, 27 Apr. 2024
The new building has modern security features, an auditorium for the performing arts and a music room designed with acoustics in mind.
—Bill Lukitsch, Kansas City Star, 25 Apr. 2024
Surrounding the auditorium is a large tent community, where families come in the summer to live in canvas tents connected to side-by-side cabins.
—Sarah Pulliam Bailey, New York Times, 12 Apr. 2024
Several years after Katrina, Colette sat in a community auditorium to hear a team of professors describe the coming sea level changes to the people who lived in the parish.
—Abrahm Lustgarten, ProPublica, 11 Apr. 2024
In the auditorium, musicians played a pair of pianos under a spotlight on the stage.
—Heather McRea, Orange County Register, 4 Apr. 2024
The speech on Thursday night drew an audience of more than 700 to the auditorium inside Farmington Hills' Hawk Community Center.
—Bill Laytner, Detroit Free Press, 5 Apr. 2024
Inside, Joyce originally placed the soundboard at the front of the auditorium.
—Tom Roland, Billboard, 29 Mar. 2024
Star-Telegram Bot, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 28 Apr. 2024
The tennis film also gets extra revenue from tickets for premium large-format auditoriums, including some Imax screens.
—J. Kim Murphy, Variety, 27 Apr. 2024
The new building has modern security features, an auditorium for the performing arts and a music room designed with acoustics in mind.
—Bill Lukitsch, Kansas City Star, 25 Apr. 2024
Surrounding the auditorium is a large tent community, where families come in the summer to live in canvas tents connected to side-by-side cabins.
—Sarah Pulliam Bailey, New York Times, 12 Apr. 2024
Several years after Katrina, Colette sat in a community auditorium to hear a team of professors describe the coming sea level changes to the people who lived in the parish.
—Abrahm Lustgarten, ProPublica, 11 Apr. 2024
In the auditorium, musicians played a pair of pianos under a spotlight on the stage.
—Heather McRea, Orange County Register, 4 Apr. 2024
The speech on Thursday night drew an audience of more than 700 to the auditorium inside Farmington Hills' Hawk Community Center.
—Bill Laytner, Detroit Free Press, 5 Apr. 2024
Inside, Joyce originally placed the soundboard at the front of the auditorium.
—Tom Roland, Billboard, 29 Mar. 2024
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auditorium
noun
au·di·to·ri·um
ˌȯd-ə-ˈtōr-ē-əm
-ˈtȯr-
1
: the part of a public building where an audience sits
2
: a room, hall, or building used for public gatherings
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