auditorium
noun
Examples of auditorium in a Sentence
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
The children all go to fairly small schools, and the ceremonies are held in the gym or auditorium, where space is very limited.
—Judith Martin, The Mercury News, 26 Mar. 2024
Her curiosity turns to humiliation, however, when a mishap involving a stage curtain reveals the moment to an entire auditorium of students and parents.
—Angie Han, The Hollywood Reporter, 14 Mar. 2024
Following the funeral, a procession will leave the auditorium and proceed east on Walnut and head north on Memorial Drive past Independence Police headquarters at 223 N. Memorial Drive.
—Robert A. Cronkleton, Kansas City Star, 7 Mar. 2024
In a fateful turn of events, the auditorium was leased by William Fox’s production company and converted into one of the most distinctive theaters of all time.
—Steven Satterfield, Southern Living, 6 Mar. 2024
Bortz relates the tale that its car-hauler had a flat tire en route, arriving after the auditorium closed.
—Mark Phelan, Detroit Free Press, 4 Apr. 2024
The writers in the Getty auditorium were already on board, game to use their platform to change hearts and minds, but as production grinds all too slowly back into action after last year’s strikes, plenty of them don’t yet know what their next platform will be.
—Alison Brower, Los Angeles Times, 27 Mar. 2024
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Word History
borrowed from Latin audītōrium "lecture room, hall, body of listeners," from audīre "to hear" + -tōrium, suffix of places, from neuter of -tōrius, deverbal adjective suffix — more at audible entry 1, auditory entry 2
1640, in the meaning defined at sense 1
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