ballroom

English

Alternative forms

• ball-room (archaic)

Etymology

From ball +‎ room.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈbɔːlɹuːm/, /ˈbɔːlɹʊm/

• Audio (Southern England):

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• Rhymes: -ɔːlɹuːm, -ɔːlɹʊm

Noun

ballroom (plural ballrooms)

1. A large room used for dancing and banquets.
   • 1909, Archibald Marshall [pseudonym; Arthur Hammond Marshall], chapter I, in The Squire’s Daughter, New York, N.Y.: Dodd, Mead and Company, published 1919, →OCLC:

     The boy became volubly friendly and bubbling over with unexpected humour and high spirits. He tried to persuade Cicely to stay away from the ball-room for a fourth dance. Nobody would miss them, he explained.

2. A type of elegant dance.

Hypernyms

• room

Derived terms

• ballroom dance
• ballroom dancing
• ballroomy

Translations

large room used for dancing

• Arabic: مَرْقَص m (marqaṣ)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 舞廳 / 舞厅 (zh) (wǔtīng)

• Danish: balsal c, dansesal c
• Esperanto: bala salono
• Finnish: tanssisali, juhlasali (fi)
• French: salle de bal f
• German: Ballsaal (de) m, Tanzsaal (de) m, Festsaal (de) m
• Hebrew: אולם נשפים m (ulam neshafym)
• Hungarian: bálterem (hu)
• Italian: sala da ballo f, balera (it) f
• Japanese: ボールルーム (ja) (bōrurūmu), ダンスホール (ja) (dansuhōru)
• Kyrgyz: бий залы (ky) m (biy zalı)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: ballsal m

  Nynorsk: ballsal m

• Polish: sala balowa f
• Portuguese: salão de baile m
• Romanian: salon de bal n, sală de dans f
• Russian: танцева́льный зал m (tanceválʹnyj zal)
• Spanish: salón de baile m
• Swedish: balsal, danssalong

type of elegant dance

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 交際舞 / 交际舞 (jiāojìwǔ)

• Finnish: salitanssi
• French: danse de salon (fr) f
• German: Standardtanz (de) m
• Hungarian: társasági tánc
• Japanese: 社交ダンス (ja) (shakō-dansu)
• Russian: ба́льный та́нец (ru) m (bálʹnyj tánec)

Verb

ballroom (third-person singular simple present ballrooms, present participle ballrooming, simple past and past participle ballroomed)

1. (intransitive) To take part in ballroom dancing.

Anagrams

• moorball