ballroom

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/ˈbɔːlɹuːm//ˈbɔːlɹʊm/

noun

A large room used for dancing and banquets.

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dance halldance palace
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Meanings

nounballroom (plural ballrooms)

plural ballrooms · alternative dated ball-room

  1. A large room used for dancing and banquets.

    The boy became volubly friendly and bubbling over with unexpected humour and high spirits. He tried to persuade Cicely to stay away from the ball-room for a fourth dance. Nobody would miss them, he explained.

    1909 September 9, Archibald Marshall [pseudonym; Arthur Hammond Marshall], chapter I, in The Squire’s Daughter, London: Methuen & Co. […], →OCLC
  2. A type of elegant dance.
verbballroom (third-person singular simple present ballrooms, present participle ballrooming, simple past and past participle ballroomed)

present singular third person ballrooms · participle present ballrooming · participle past ballroomed · past ballroomed · alternative dated ball-room

  1. intransitiveTo take part in ballroom dancing.

Synonyms & antonyms

Broader
room

nounlarge room used mainly for dancing

Similar
dance halldance palace
Broader
room

Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.

Origin

From ball + room.

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Translations

Arabic مَرْقَص
  • مَرْقَص (marqaṣ)large room used for dancing
Bulgarian бална зала, салонен танц
  • бална зала (balna zala)large room used for dancing
  • салонен танц (salonen tanc)type of elegant dance
Chinese Mandarin 舞廳 /舞厅, 交際舞 /交际舞
  • 舞廳 /舞厅 (wǔtīng)large room used for dancing
  • 交際舞 /交际舞 (jiāojìwǔ)type of elegant dance
Danish balsal, dansesal
  • balsallarge room used for dancing
  • dansesallarge room used for dancing
Esperanto bala salono
  • bala salonolarge room used for dancing
Finnish tanssisali, juhlasali
  • tanssisalilarge room used for dancing
  • juhlasalilarge room used for dancing
  • salitanssitype of elegant dance
French salle de bal, danse de salon
  • salle de ballarge room used for dancing
  • danse de salontype of elegant dance
German Ballsaal, Tanzsaal
  • Ballsaallarge room used for dancing
  • Tanzsaallarge room used for dancing
  • Festsaallarge room used for dancing
  • Standardtanztype of elegant dance
Hebrew אולם נשפים
  • אולם נשפים (ulam neshafym)large room used for dancing
Hungarian bálterem, társasági tánc
  • bálteremlarge room used for dancing
  • társasági tánctype of elegant dance
Indonesian balai riung
  • balai riunglarge room used for dancing
Italian sala da ballo, balera
  • sala da ballolarge room used for dancing
  • baleralarge room used for dancing
Japanese ボールルーム, ダンスホール
  • ボールルーム (bōrurūmu)large room used for dancing
  • ダンスホール (dansuhōru)large room used for dancing
  • 社交ダンス (shakō-dansu)type of elegant dance
Norwegian Bokmål ballsal
  • ballsallarge room used for dancing
Polish sala balowa
  • sala balowalarge room used for dancing
Portuguese salão de baile
  • salão de bailelarge room used for dancing
Romanian salon de bal, sală de dans
  • salon de ballarge room used for dancing
  • sală de danslarge room used for dancing
Russian танцева́льный зал, ба́льный та́нец
  • танцева́льный зал (tanceválʹnyj zal)large room used for dancing
  • ба́льный та́нец (bálʹnyj tánec)type of elegant dance
Spanish salón de baile
  • salón de bailelarge room used for dancing
Swahili bwalo la dansi
  • bwalo la dansilarge room used for dancing
Swedish balsal, danssalong
  • balsallarge room used for dancing
  • danssalonglarge room used for dancing

Rhymes & wordplay

Anagrams

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Cite this entry
APA

ballroom. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/ballroom

MLA

“ballroom.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/ballroom. Accessed November 2, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “ballroom,” accessed November 2, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/ballroom.

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