assembly hall
3
2.7
- noun
- /əˈsɛm.bli hɔl/
:
salón de actos
- Please report immediately to the main assembly hall.
- school assembly hall
Examples
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All students will report to the assembly hall during third period for a special presentation.
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Katie Ledecky stood in front of her classmates, all 300 of them sitting, legs crossed, on the cold floor of an assembly hall.
Blog text (15) -
All students will report to the assembly hall... during third period for a special presentation.
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All the townsfolk head toward the assembly hall.
Fiction book (2000) -
For lack of adequate space downtown, the ceremony was held in the assembly hall of Hunter College, where Maritain was teaching at the time, with Alvin Johnson presiding.
Academic text (1998) -
The assembly hall was low-ceilinged, dingy, and smelled faintly of mildew and vinegar, but he wouldn't have minded any of that.
Fiction book (2002) -
One morning at school, after the boys finished prayers, we were called to the assembly hall.
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A thousand people packed into the assembly hall, where dust was dancing in beams of sunlight.
Synonyms
314
1.0
A large space for public gatherings like concerts or feasts
136
3.5
A building where people meet for public events
96
3.7
A large room with seats where people sit to watch or listen to events
92
2.0
A room in an office where people meet to discuss work
17
1.3
A place where people come together to talk or do group activities
12
2.3
A room at a school or university where people relax, talk, and study together
8
5.1
A very large room in a castle or large house where people eat and have large gatherings
8
2.3
A place where people meet regularly to talk and spend time
6
2.8
A building with rooms for meetings, talks, and events
2
9.6
A public hall for talks and musical performances
2
3.2
A large room or building used for shows and displays
1
2.5
A place where people meet regularly to talk and spend time together
1
8.4
A simple building where people meet for religious services, often used by Quakers
1
3.2
A large indoor space for showing products or displays
A building where people meet for conferences and meetings
A large room in a building where people meet for events
How Big
Surface Forms
Morphology
Both constituents 'assembly' and 'hall' denote places or occasions for gatherings, so 'assembly hall' straightforwardly refers to a room or building for assemblies. This is a simple compositional noun–noun compound following common cross-linguistic patterns, so a B1 learner who knows both words can readily infer the meaning.
Etymology
The phrase assembly hall may come from the simple image of assembly meaning 'gathering' and a hall meaning a big room in a school or town. So, it now means a large room for meetings and events.