lecture hall

noun

: a room specially designed for lectures : auditorium
We all took our seats in the lecture hall.

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The rambunctious teenagers crammed into a lecture hall suddenly went quiet when a woman old enough to be their great-grandmother, and smaller in stature than many of them, approached the podium. — Gustavo Arellano, Los Angeles Times, 28 Oct. 2026 Consider Erika, in Weimar, walking out of a lecture hall, unable to bear yet another speech by her famous father. — Anthony Lane, New Yorker, 28 Sep. 2026 The center section, where the wood panels back the seats, almost looks more like a university lecture hall than the end zone of a stadium. — Shaun Goodwin, Idaho Statesman, 17 Sep. 2026 Idzik and fellow walk-on Jordan Garside would reserve a lecture hall in the business school, write their mocks on the whiteboard and throw a two-person draft party. — Joseph Person, New York Times, 7 Sep. 2026 See All Example Sentences for lecture hall

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“Lecture hall.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/lecture%20hall. Accessed 6 Nov. 2026.

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