ballroom

English

Alternative forms

• ball-room

Etymology

ball +‎ room

Noun

ballroom (plural ballrooms)

1. A large room used for dancing and banquets.
   • 1909, Archibald Marshall, The Squire's Daughter, chapterI:

     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

Translations

large room used for dancing

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 舞廳 (zh), 舞厅 (zh) (wǔtīng)

• Finnish: tanssisali, juhlasali (fi)
• French: salle de bal f
• German: Ballsaal (de) m
• Hebrew: אולם נשפים‏‎ m (ulam neshafym)
• Hungarian: bálterem (hu)
• Italian: sala da ballo f, balera f

• Japanese: ボールルーム (bōrurūmu), ダンスホール (dansuhōru)
• Kyrgyz: бий залы (ky) m (biy zalı)
• 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 (shakō-dansu)
• Russian: ба́льный та́нец (ru) m (bálʹnyj tánec)

Anagrams

• moorball