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BALLROOM
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Large room used mainly for dancing
Synonyms:
ballroom; dance hall; dance palace
Classified under:
Nouns denoting man-made objects
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:
She never had much to show when she came home, but was studying nature, I dare say, while she sat for hours, with her hands folded, on the terrace at Valrosa, or absently sketched any fancy that occurred to her, a stalwart knight carved on a tomb, a young man asleep in the grass, with his hat over his eyes, or a curly haired girl in gorgeous array, promenading down a ballroom on the arm of a tall gentleman, both faces being left a blur according to the last fashion in art, which was safe but not altogether satisfactory.
(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)
When the company were moving into the ballroom, she found herself for the first time near Miss Crawford, whose eyes and smiles were immediately and more unequivocally directed as her brother's had been, and who was beginning to speak on the subject, when Fanny, anxious to get the story over, hastened to give the explanation of the second necklace: the real chain.
(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)
From Harriet's manner of speaking of the circumstance before they quitted the ballroom, she had strong hopes.
(Emma, by Jane Austen)
“What are you thinking of so earnestly?” said he, as they walked back to the ballroom; “not of your partner, I hope, for, by that shake of the head, your meditations are not satisfactory.”
(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)
Good evening, Apollo! she answered, smiling back at him, for he too looked unusually debonair, and the thought of entering the ballroom on the arm of such a personable man caused Amy to pity the four plain Misses Davis from the bottom of her heart.
(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)
In every meeting there was a hope of receiving farther confirmation of Miss Crawford's attachment; but the whirl of a ballroom, perhaps, was not particularly favourable to the excitement or expression of serious feelings.
(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)
She wished he could love a ballroom better, and could like Frank Churchill better.
(Emma, by Jane Austen)
As Tom took up the receiver the compressed heat exploded into sound and we were listening to the portentous chords of Mendelssohn's Wedding March from the ballroom below.
(The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald)
From the ballroom beneath, muffled and suffocating chords were drifting up on hot waves of air.
(The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald)
