audience hall
Word Rarity
Uncommon
Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.49 in modern English
18
Scrabble Score
12
Letters
3
Syllables
9
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A room in which a ruler or religious official holds audience (i.e. a formal meeting with a dignitary).
noun
An auditorium or large hall with a stage designed to seat an audience (i.e. a group of people watching a performance).
Dated
Example Sentences
- "The audience hall was in another building , for the Chinese palaces, instead of being one great building as in Europe, consist of a number of pavilions divided by courts and connected by covered archways."
- "In the audience hall Nervi's typical reinterpretation of reinforced concrete leads to an astonishingly direct and symbolic implementation of the functional requirements."
- "When His Majesty the King proceeds to an audience hall or any royal building but has not yet arrived, others of royal lineage, luang mueang, khun, muen, hua phan, saber masters, and various officials attending on the royal foot may not exit beforehand."
- "The poet also described that he had crossed nine gates from the principal gateway of the palace to go to the audience hall."
- "Seats shall be not less than 2 feet 6 inches from back to back, measured horizontally, and no seat on the audience hall floor shall have more than 7 seats between it and an aisle."
- "A minimum of 4 3/5 sq. ft. (must be at least 33 in. back to back of seats by at least 20 in. width of seat) of floor area as a seating space per occupant, exclusive of aisles and public passageways, shall be provided in the audience hall."
Usage
Inflected Forms
audience halls (plural)
audience-hall (alternative)