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单词 auditorium
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auditoriumn.

/ɔːdɪˈtɔːrɪəm/
Etymology: < Latin audītōrium lecture-room, audience, neuter of adjective audītōrius used substantively: see auditory n. and -orium suffix.
1.
a. The part of a public building occupied by the audience; in ancient churches, the ‘nave.’ Also (U.S.) applied to the entire building.
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society > faith > artefacts > division of building (general) > nave > [noun]
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the world > physical sensation > hearing and noise > [noun] > place of hearing or listening
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auditorium1854
society > leisure > the arts > performance arts > the theatre or the stage > a theatre > auditorium > [noun]
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1728 E. Chambers Cycl. Auditorium..was that Part of the Church where the Auditores stood to hear, and be instructed.
1854 W. Irving Let. 22 Nov. in P. M. Irving Life & Lett. (1864) IV. 158 I mingled in the crowd, and heard Bancroft's erudite address from the ‘auditorium’.
1881 Daily News 12 Sept. 2/3 Every part of the auditorium, the boxes, upper circle, and gallery.
1928 F. Hurst President is Born iv. 35 Bek..arranged his one-man [water-colour] show in the Auditorium of the Tallahassee High School.
1929 H. G. Wells King who was King viii. 248 The lights in the auditorium [of the cinema] go up.
1954 Manch. Guardian Weekly 18 Feb. 8/4 Joe's first stop was Charleston, West Virginia, where..he drew a good crowd of 2,800 to an auditorium that had seats for 3,517.
b. attributive.
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1898 J. Hollingshead Gaiety Chron. ii. 50 The room belonged to the auditorium side of the curtain.
1908 Westm. Gaz. 7 July 10/1 The design of the Auditorium building is in the Renaissance style of architecture.
2. The reception-room of a monastery. (Medieval Latin.)
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society > faith > artefacts > monastic property (general) > monastery or convent > parts of monastery > [noun] > reception room
auditorium1863
1863 J. C. Morison St. Bernard ii. ii. 196 In the ‘auditorium,’ or talking-room of the monastery.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1885; most recently modified version published online September 2018).
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