lecture hall

noun

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

Example Sentences

Recent Examples on the Web As the seventh graders settled into a lecture hall at a school near London, the topic at hand was not human rights, historical events or different religions. Isabella Kwai, New York Times, 19 Feb. 2023 The war for the soul of literary studies was thus fought on two fronts: the research library and the lecture hall. Evan Kindley, The New York Review of Books, 16 Feb. 2023

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“Lecture hall.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/lecture%20hall. Accessed 21 Mar. 2023.

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