lecture hall
noun
: a room specially designed for lectures : auditorium
We all took our seats in the lecture hall.
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At a typical research university, an undergraduate course like this would meet inside a lecture hall, perhaps with separate breakout sections for discussion led by graduate students.
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Ian Bogost, The Atlantic, 29 Jan. 2026
Stories that made the setting feel more like a family dinner than a lecture hall.
—Ryan Gable, Chicago Tribune, 21 Jan. 2026
The origin of the 9mm pistol that Claudio Neves Valente fired in a Brown University lecture hall is not known to the public.
—Mark Reynolds, The Providence Journal, 5 Jan. 2026
The shooting suspect was enrolled as a graduate student in Brown's physics program in 2000 and likely would have been familiar with the building that housed the lecture hall where two students were killed and nine others were wounded in Saturday's violence.
—Jay Marques, NBC news, 20 Dec. 2025
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Ian Bogost, The Atlantic, 29 Jan. 2026
Stories that made the setting feel more like a family dinner than a lecture hall.
—Ryan Gable, Chicago Tribune, 21 Jan. 2026
The origin of the 9mm pistol that Claudio Neves Valente fired in a Brown University lecture hall is not known to the public.
—Mark Reynolds, The Providence Journal, 5 Jan. 2026
The shooting suspect was enrolled as a graduate student in Brown's physics program in 2000 and likely would have been familiar with the building that housed the lecture hall where two students were killed and nine others were wounded in Saturday's violence.
—Jay Marques, NBC news, 20 Dec. 2025
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 5 Feb. 2026.
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