audience room

American  

noun

1. a room for holding formal interviews or hearings.

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Etymology

Origin of audience room

First recorded in 1780–90

Example Sentences

"The moment I've been dreading, as I know a lot of people have," Charles was heard saying to the prime minister as they met in the audience room at Buckingham Palace.

From Reuters • Sep. 9, 2022

We were in a formal audience room in the presidential palace in Tunis around midday on Friday, all crystal sconces and gilt-edged chairs.

From New York Times • Aug. 1, 2021

Not that writer-director David Lowery is unaware of his protagonist’s problematic side: He makes sure to give the audience room for at least a few moments of ambivalence.

From Washington Post • Oct. 2, 2018

Central to this novelistic practice is learning how to leave sufficient space, so as to give your audience room to elaborate.

From The New Yorker • Jun. 12, 2017

They poured in at all the doors, and the great audience room, with the balconies and the windows, the choir and the aisles, the platform and every foot of available space, was early occupied.

From The History of Woman Suffrage, Volume IV by Harper, Ida Husted