BALLROOM

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does ballroom mean? 

• BALLROOM (noun)
  The noun BALLROOM has 1 sense:

1. large room used mainly for dancing

  Familiarity information: BALLROOM used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• BALLROOM (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Large room used mainly for dancing

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Synonyms:

ballroom; dance hall; dance palace

Hypernyms ("ballroom" is a kind of...):

room (an area within a building enclosed by walls and floor and ceiling)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "ballroom"):

disco; discotheque (a public dance hall for dancing to recorded popular music)

 Context examples 

They were in the ballroom, the violins were playing, and her mind was in a flutter that forbade its fixing on anything serious.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

At the time of the ballroom's being built, suppers had not been in question; and a small card-room adjoining, was the only addition.

(Emma, by Jane Austen)

It was a fine dry night; frost in the air; the streets as clean as a ballroom floor; the lamps, unshaken by any wind, drawing a regular pattern of light and shadow.

(The Strange Case Of Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

Mrs. Allen was so long in dressing that they did not enter the ballroom till late.

(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)

He assumed a mock extravagance, and went on: I am no attic singer, no ballroom warbler. And why? Because I am practical.

(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)

From ballet and Zumba to Jazzercise, salsa, techno, swing, ballroom, and hip-hop, there are plenty of ways to have fun as you get fit.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

She knew she looked well, she loved to dance, she felt that her foot was on her native heath in a ballroom, and enjoyed the delightful sense of power which comes when young girls first discover the new and lovely kingdom they are born to rule by virtue of beauty, youth, and womanhood.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

No doubt it is handsomer than mine, and fitter for a ballroom.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

Emma had no opportunity of speaking to Mr. Knightley till after supper; but, when they were all in the ballroom again, her eyes invited him irresistibly to come to her and be thanked.

(Emma, by Jane Austen)

The Thorpes and James Morland were there only two minutes before them; and Isabella having gone through the usual ceremonial of meeting her friend with the most smiling and affectionate haste, of admiring the set of her gown, and envying the curl of her hair, they followed their chaperones, arm in arm, into the ballroom, whispering to each other whenever a thought occurred, and supplying the place of many ideas by a squeeze of the hand or a smile of affection.

(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)