Crossword clues for auditorium
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Auditorium \Au`di*to"ri*um\, n. [L. See Auditory, n.]
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The part of a church, theater, or other public building, assigned to the audience.
Note: In ancient churches the auditorium was the nave, where hearers stood to be instructed; in monasteries it was an apartment for the reception of strangers.
a building, or a room within a building, containing a large open space for public gatherings, and often having a raised stage where speakers or presentations may be easily viewed by the audience. The students assembled to hear the president speak in the auditorium.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1727, from Latin auditorium "lecture room," literally "place where something is heard," neuter of auditorius (adj.) "of or for hearing," from auditus, past participle of audire "to hear" (see audience); also see -ory. Earlier in the same sense was auditory (late 14c.).
Wiktionary
n. 1 A large room for public meetings or performances. 2 (context in a theater, etc. English) The space where the audience is located.
WordNet
n. the area of a theater or concert hall where the audience sits
[also: auditoria (pl)]
Wikipedia
An auditorium is a room built to enable an audience to hear and watch performances at venues such as theatres. For movie theatres, the number of auditoriums is expressed as the number of screens. Auditoria can be found in entertainment venues, community halls, and theaters, and may be used for rehearsal, presentation, performing arts productions, or as a learning space.
The Auditorium (formerly the RLDS Auditorium) is a house of worship and office building located on the greater Temple Lot in Independence, Missouri. The Auditorium is part of the headquarters complex of the Community of Christ which also includes the Independence Temple.
Auditorium may refer to:
- Auditorium, area within a theatre, concert hall or other performance space where the audience is located in order to hear and watch the performance
- Auditorium (Community of Christ), a Christian house of worship and church office building located in Independence, Missouri
- "Auditorium," a song by Guided by Voices from their 1995 album Alien Lanes
- Auditorium Building, National Historic Landmark in Chicago, IL designed by Adler and Sullivan.
- Auditorium (Torrance High School), Torrance, California, listed on the NRHP in Los Angeles County, California
- Auditorium (video game), a musical puzzle game by Philadelphia-based studio Cipher Prime.
Auditorium is a music-based puzzle game developed by Philadelphia-based studio Cipher Prime. Originally released as a Flash game in April 2008, Auditorium was later released for iOS devices and then the PlayStation 3 and PSP in 2010. It was also released in 2012 for PC and Mac OS X. In 2012, Cipher Prime launched a successful Kickstarter campaign for a sequel to Auditorium, titled Auditorium 2: Duet.
Auditorium is a 2016 composition for electronica and orchestra by the American composer Mason Bates. The work was commissioned by the San Francisco Symphony with support from Larry and Michèle Corash. Its world premiere was given by the San Francisco Symphony conducted by Pablo Heras-Casado on April 27, 2016. The piece is dedicated to Larry and Michèle Corash.
The Auditorium, also known as the Assembly Hall, is located on the campus of Torrance High School in Torrance, Los Angeles County, California.
It is a PWA Moderne style building, built in 1938.
National Register of Historic PlacesIt was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1983.
The Auditorium is one of four buildings on the campus of the Torrance High School listed on the NRHP, the other buildings are:
- Torrance School
- Main Building
- Home Economics Building
Usage examples of "auditorium".
The musty auditorium was a dimly lit torture chamber, filled with the droning dull voice punctuated by the sharp screams of the electrified, the sea of nodding heads abob here and there with painfully leaping figures.
The Pleiades were all abuzz over the advent of their visiting star, Miss Frances Homer, the celebrated monologuist, who, at Eaton Auditorium, again presented her Women of Destiny series, in which she portrays women of history and the influence they brought to bear upon the lives of such momentous world figures as Napoleon, Ferdinand of Spain, Horatio Nelson and Shakespeare.
He stood silently behind the podium as he watched the shaken delegations file out of the auditorium until only he, Joaquin, and Ament remained.
He wanted to face the oil painting at the end of the auditorium, showing Baron von Conradi, founder of the school, caseous and immortal beneath heavy varnish.
In Hauck Auditorium, sitting beside Carol Gerber, this crazy card-party had seemed like a dream.
So, two nights before we left for Florida, I scheduled the base auditorium for the evening and assembled the Team- I put Paut and Command Master Chief Mac outside the doors to keep interlopers away.
The War Memorial Auditorium was full, with people from all walks of life who had come to pay their respects to a man whose Senate service included his role in building the interstate highway system, his refusal to sign the segregationist Southern Manifesto in 1956, and his courageous opposition to the Vietnam War.
Not as imposing as the hundred-floor apartment buildings of the big cities, yet large enough to contain all the amenitiesan ultra-market, automated kitchens, parking areas, theatres, auditoriums, sports arenas.
And the moaning sound that still filled the auditorium must be the moorage webbing, twisting beneath the temp.
The media mobbed Canaveral again, but I watched this round on a big digital projection in the auditorium at Perihelion, a sunshine launch that scattered herons into the sky over Merritt Island like bright confetti.
They did not want to insult their friends, who had broken the rules and sacrificed their drinking glasses just to help them, but they were unable to see how propping open the back door of the auditorium was a solution to the trouble in which they found themselves.
They went out onto the street and headed for the Assembly Halls, a commercial building devoted to a score of rentable halls ranging from a large auditorium to small lecture rooms that would hold audiences of fifty or so.
It was a little theater holding about 1,500 people, with a magnificent stage, which at that time was far in advance of any other, but has since been surpassed by many, notably by that of the Auditorium, in Chicago.
Lyle Johnson rushed over to the City Auditorium during a scene in which he did not appear and presented a silver cup to the winner of the Boy Scout Hurdle Contest--a stunt which Andy had approved, though Tertius Tully, the procurer of the other personal appearances, had fretted that the Boy Scouts and their doggone hurdling were nothing but Competition for the Show.
Her real task, as understudy for Juliet, was to sit down in the auditorium, unmoving, like a solemn little owl, concentrated on everything that Mrs.