ballroomnoun [ C ]
uk/ˈbɔːl.ruːm//ˈbɔːl.rʊm/us/ˈbɑːl.ruːm//ˈbɑːl.rʊm/a large room that is used for dancing
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Parts of buildings: rooms
- antechamber
- anteroom
- atelier
- atrium
- attic
- bathroom
- conservatory
- eyrie
- family room
- form room
- front room
- garret
- gymnasium
- reading room
- reception room
- refectory
- room
- rumpus room
- snug
- vault
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Examples from literature
- At back double doors open into a corridor which leads to the ballroom.
- But he is quite a young gentleman, and has doubtless had more experience in ballrooms than in bombarded cities.
- But there was also dancing in the ballroom.
- Round and round the ballroom went the seventeen struggling little couples of the Friday Afternoon Dancing Class.
- Soon dinner was over, and the guests began to stray by twos and threes to the ballroom.
- The walls and the ceiling of the great ballroom were of thick but transparent glass.