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from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A room in which lectures are delivered, as at a university or in a church.

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Examples

  • It was on Tuesday that I saw my first death -- Miss Collbran, one of my students, sitting right there before my eyes, in my lecture-room.

    Page 3 2010

  • Yet in those few minutes I remained with the dying woman in my classroom, the alarm had spread over the university; and the students, by thousands, all of them, had deserted the lecture-room and laboratories.

    Page 3 2010

  • Man, the mighty toiler, reacting upon a hostile environment, she thought, going back in memory to the masters whose wisdom she had shared in lecture-room and midnight study.

    CHAPTER I 2010

  • He found himself regretting as the time drew near for him to go back to his lecture-room and his inhibition.

    SOUTH OF THE SLOT 2010

  • He found himself regretting as the time drew near for him to go back to his lecture-room and his inhibition.

    SOUTH OF THE SLOT 2010

  • But it turns out that their relationship was far more complicated than this lecture-room caricature suggests.

    Cover to Cover 2008

  • But it turns out that their relationship was far more complicated than this lecture-room caricature suggests.

    Cover to Cover 2008

  • The Court of Enquiry sat that afternoon in a big lecture-room opening upon the garden quadrangle of the submarine depot.

    In Spite of Their Declaration of Bombs 2010

  • She could have tried a bit harder, however, to avoid such lecture-room banalities as describing Tristram Shandy as being ‘like Montaigne on speed’, and surmising that ‘had Montaigne been a young man of the early 21st century instead of the 16th, he would probably have had [his motto] done as a tattoo.’

    Addle-pated modernist 2010

  • But it turns out that their relationship was far more complicated than this lecture-room caricature suggests.

    Cover to Cover 2008

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