ballroom

noun

Definition of ballroomnext
as in auditorium

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Recent Examples of ballroom Dancing With the Stars pro Val Chmerkovskiy was back in the ballroom for Horror Movie Night. — Leigh Blickley, Entertainment Weekly, 28 Oct. 2026 On Tuesday night’s episode of the dance competition series, Chmerkovskiy was back in the ballroom following a one-week suspension from the show. — Payton Turkeltaub, Variety, 28 Oct. 2026 Those plans include construction of a huge ballroom at the White House, a massive arch, and the creation of a National Garden of American Heroes in West Potomac Park. — ABC News, 28 Oct. 2026 Horror Movie Night also saw Val return to the ballroom after his one-week suspension following his allusion to Will Smith’s infamous Oscars slap while critiquing Carrie Ann Inaba’s judging of his wife, Jenna Johnson. — Mckinley Franklin, HollywoodReporter, 27 Oct. 2026 See All Example Sentences for ballroom
Recent Examples of Synonyms for ballroom
  1. auditorium
  2. garden
  3. amphitheater
  4. arena
  5. theater
  6. hall
Noun
  • Pinault also owns Venice’s Teatrino, a 225-seat auditorium that reopened in 2013 after a renovation by Tadao Ando, who also worked on the other two spaces in the city.
    — Devorah Lauter, ARTnews.com, 4 Nov. 2026
  • Who hasn’t airballed a foul shot in front of a Catholic school auditorium filled with 50 people on a Saturday morning?
    — Ryan Gaydos OutKick, FOXNews.com, 3 Nov. 2026
Definition of auditorium
Noun
  • All-inclusive meals made with organic produce grown in the garden are outstanding.
    — Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 2 Nov. 2026
  • The normal fall routine for many gardeners is to remove all the leaves from the garden and either bag them up or pile them at the curb for transportation to a landscape waste facility to turn them into compost.
    — Tim Johnson, Chicago Tribune, 1 Nov. 2026
Definition of garden
Noun
  • Because the amphitheater is built into a mountainside, wheelchair-accessible seating is limited to the very front and very back row.
    — Maribeth Romslo, Rolling Stone, 1 Nov. 2026
  • Two weeks later, Allen downscaled the North American itinerary, swapping several big arenas for small arenas and small arenas for amphitheaters.
    — Jazz Monroe, Pitchfork, 30 Oct. 2026
Definition of amphitheater
Noun
  • The Lakers unveiled a statue of their Showtime era coach outside their downtown arena last season.
    — ABC News, ABC News, 3 Nov. 2026
  • Cluff carried him through the arena for Grand Entry, dancing as intertribal drum groups took turns playing and hundreds of representatives of indigenous tribes danced.
    — Sarah Gordon, Hartford Courant, 3 Nov. 2026
Definition of arena
Noun
  • About 100 of the theater's 120 staff members work in Kherson, and none have evacuated.
    — HANNA ARHIROVA, Arkansas Online, 2 Nov. 2026
  • But the objects we are left with, to take both Kaplan and Naumann as examples, often fall short of what either a painting or sculpture can be—and, without the theater play itself, what of the pertinent conversation?
    — Kristian Vistrup Madsen, Artforum, 1 Nov. 2026
Definition of theater
Noun
  • Marshall previously said the teen had spent several months in juvenile hall following a separate shooting at Fairfield High School in 2025.
    — Richard Ramos, CBS News, 4 Nov. 2026
  • She was scheduled to spend election night with supporters at the Teamsters Local 743 hall in the Southwest Side’s Archer Heights neighborhood.
    — Jake Sheridan, Chicago Tribune, 4 Nov. 2026
Definition of hall

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“Ballroom.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/ballroom. Accessed 8 Nov. 2026.

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