Hall vs. Auditorium — What's the Difference?

In architecture, a hall is a relatively large space enclosed by a roof and walls. In the Iron Age and early Middle Ages in northern Europe, a mead hall was where a lord and his retainers ate and also slept.

An auditorium is a room built to enable an audience to hear and watch performances. For movie theatres, the number of auditoria (or auditoriums) is expressed as the number of screens.

A corridor or passageway in a building.

A large room to accommodate an audience in a building such as a school or theater.

A large entrance room or vestibule in a building; a lobby.

A large building for public meetings or performances.

A building for public gatherings or entertainments.

A large room for public meetings or performances

The large room in which such events are held.

(in a theater, etc.) the space where the audience is located

A building used for the gatherings and social activities of a church, fraternal order, or other organization.

The part of a church, theater, or other public building, assigned to the audience.

A building belonging to a school, college, or university that provides classroom, dormitory, or dining facilities.

A building, or a room within a building, containing a large open space for public gatherings, and often having a raised stage where speakers or presentations may be easily viewed by the audience.

A large room in such a building.

The area of a theater or concert hall where the audience sits

The group of students using such a building

Chiefly British A meal served in such a building.

The main house on a landed estate.

The castle or house of a medieval monarch or noble.

The principal room in such a castle or house, used for dining, entertaining, and sleeping.

A corridor; a hallway.

A meeting room.

A manor house (originally because a magistrate's court was held in the hall of his mansion).

A building providing student accommodation at a university.

The principal room of a secular medieval building.

(obsolete) Cleared passageway through a crowd, as for dancing.

A place for special professional education, or for conferring professional degrees or licences.

(India) A living room.

(Oxbridge) A college's canteen, which is often but not always coterminous with a traditional hall.

(Oxbridge slang) A meal served and eaten at a college's hall.

A building or room of considerable size and stateliness, used for public purposes; as, Westminster Hall, in London.

The chief room in a castle or manor house, and in early times the only public room, serving as the place of gathering for the lord's family with the retainers and servants, also for cooking and eating. It was often contrasted with the bower, which was the private or sleeping apartment.

A vestibule, entrance room, etc., in the more elaborated buildings of later times.

A name given to many manor houses because the magistrate's court was held in the hall of his mansion; a chief mansion house.

A college in an English university (at Oxford, an unendowed college).

The apartment in which English university students dine in common; hence, the dinner itself; as, hall is at six o'clock.

Cleared passageway in a crowd; - formerly an exclamation.

An interior passage or corridor onto which rooms open;

A large entrance or reception room or area

A large room for gatherings or entertainment;

A college or university building containing living quarters for students

The large room of a manor or castle

English writer whose novel about a lesbian relationship was banned in Britain for many years (1883-1943)

United States child psychologist whose theories of child psychology strongly influenced educational psychology (1844-1924)

United States chemist who developed an economical method of producing aluminum from bauxite (1863-1914)

United States explorer who led three expeditions to the Arctic (1821-1871)

United States astronomer who discovered Phobos and Deimos (the two satellites of Mars) (1829-1907)

A large and imposing house

A large building used by a college or university for teaching or research;

A large building for meetings or entertainment