lecture theatre

noun

A room in a university with many seats and a sloped floor, used to hold lectures.

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lecture hall
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Meanings

nounlecture theatre (plural lecture theatres)

plural lecture theatres

  1. A room in a university with many seats and a sloped floor, used to hold lectures.

    Inside classrooms and lecture theatres, all signage is in English, as is the signage in the staff office blocks. There were only three exceptions to this complete predominance of English.

    2019, Li Huang, James Lambert, “Another Arrow for the Quiver: A New Methodology for Multilingual Researchers”, in Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, →DOI, page 5

    Synonyms: lecture hall

Synonyms & antonyms

nounA room in a university with many seats and a sloped floor, used to hold lectures.

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lecture hall

Translations

Arabic صَالَة مُحَاضَرَات
  • صَالَة مُحَاضَرَات (ṣālat muḥāḍarāt)room in a university with many seats and a sloped floor
Bulgarian аудито́рия
  • аудито́рия (auditórija)room in a university with many seats and a sloped floor
Chinese Mandarin 階梯教室 /阶梯教室, 講堂 /讲堂
  • 階梯教室 /阶梯教室 (jiētī jiàoshì)room in a university with many seats and a sloped floor
  • 講堂 /讲堂 (jiǎngtáng)room in a university with many seats and a sloped floor
  • 演講廳 /演讲厅 (yǎnjiǎngtīng)room in a university with many seats and a sloped floor
  • 禮堂 /礼堂 (lǐtáng)room in a university with many seats and a sloped floor
Czech posluchárna, auditorium
  • posluchárnaroom in a university with many seats and a sloped floor
  • auditoriumroom in a university with many seats and a sloped floor
Danish aula, auditorium
  • aularoom in a university with many seats and a sloped floor
  • auditoriumroom in a university with many seats and a sloped floor
Dutch collegezaal
  • collegezaalroom in a university with many seats and a sloped floor
Finnish auditorio, luentosali
  • auditorioroom in a university with many seats and a sloped floor
  • luentosaliroom in a university with many seats and a sloped floor
French amphithéâtre, amphi
  • amphithéâtreroom in a university with many seats and a sloped floor
  • amphiroom in a university with many seats and a sloped floor
  • auditoireroom in a university with many seats and a sloped floor
German Hörsaal, Vorlesungssaal
  • Hörsaalroom in a university with many seats and a sloped floor
  • Vorlesungssaalroom in a university with many seats and a sloped floor
  • Auditoriumroom in a university with many seats and a sloped floor
Hungarian előadóterem
  • előadóteremroom in a university with many seats and a sloped floor
Italian aula
  • aularoom in a university with many seats and a sloped floor
Japanese 講堂
  • 講堂 (kōdō)room in a university with many seats and a sloped floor
Korean 강당
  • 강당 (gangdang)room in a university with many seats and a sloped floor
Latin auditorium, exedra
  • auditoriumroom in a university with many seats and a sloped floor
  • exedraroom in a university with many seats and a sloped floor
Norwegian Bokmål forelesningssal, auditorium
  • forelesningssalroom in a university with many seats and a sloped floor
  • auditoriumroom in a university with many seats and a sloped floor
Polish aula, audytorium
  • aularoom in a university with many seats and a sloped floor
  • audytoriumroom in a university with many seats and a sloped floor
Russian аудито́рия
  • аудито́рия (auditórija)room in a university with many seats and a sloped floor
Spanish auditorio, salón de actos
  • auditorioroom in a university with many seats and a sloped floor
  • salón de actosroom in a university with many seats and a sloped floor
  • anfiteatroroom in a university with many seats and a sloped floor
Swedish hörsal, auditorium
  • hörsalroom in a university with many seats and a sloped floor
  • auditoriumroom in a university with many seats and a sloped floor
Ukrainian аудито́рія, авдито́рія
  • аудито́рія (audytórija)room in a university with many seats and a sloped floor
  • авдито́рія (avdytórija)room in a university with many seats and a sloped floor
Cite this entry
APA

lecture theatre. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 5, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/lecture%20theatre

MLA

“lecture theatre.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/lecture%20theatre. Accessed November 5, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “lecture theatre,” accessed November 5, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/lecture%20theatre.

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