Skip to content
OneKitly

auditorium

nounattested in dialogue

  • United Kingdom//ɔː.dɪˈtɔː.ɹi.əm//
  • United States//ˌɔ.dɪˌto.ɹi.əm//
  • Canada//ˈɑ.dɪˌto.ɹi.əm//

A large room for public meetings or performances.

noun

  1. 1

    A large room for public meetings or performances.

  2. 2

    The space where the audience is located in a theater, etc.

    The Academy of Music is 204 feet in length and 114 feet in width at the auditorium part, and and ^([sic]) 121 feet at the stage; hence covering an area of 24,020 square feet, of which 9,760 square feet are the area of the stage and its dependencies, and 14,260 square feet are appropriated to the auditorium, saloons, lobbies and so forth.

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin audītōrium, from audītōrius (“pertaining to hearing”). Equivalent to auditory + -ium.

Forms

plural
auditoriums, auditoria
The neighbouring pagesAlphabetical order follows the rules of the language, not byte values: an accent decides only between two otherwise identical words, and Spanish files Ñ as a letter of its own.

Lexical content from Wiktionary, under CC BY-SA 4.0 · Source entry · Data version 2026-08-23

Rank among the words of the OpenSubtitles 2018 corpus — film and television subtitles, so spoken rather than written usage (CC BY-SA 3.0).