convention center

American  

noun

1. a large civic building or group of buildings designed for conventions, industrial shows, and the like, having large unobstructed exhibit areas and often including conference rooms, hotel accommodations, restaurants, and other facilities.

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Example Sentences

After spending much of the year racing to remake civilization, they packed a giant convention center and marveled at displays flaunting the latest AI research between bites of Auntie Anne’s pretzels.

From The Wall Street Journal

But the earnest academic inquiry that has long animated the conference could still be found inside the convention center.

From The Wall Street Journal

As the programming came to an end, packs of AI researchers began heading back to the convention center for the closing ceremony.

From The Wall Street Journal

“We provide that taste of something positive, something colorful in difficult times,” Spindler says, sitting in a Paris convention center that was being transformed into a Coachella-style festival, with carnival games, photo booths, matcha drinks and samples upon samples of cosmetics meant to make attendees look, feel and smell amazing.

From The Wall Street Journal

You can see the results of all this at Art Basel Miami Beach, America’s biggest art fair—with nearly 300 exhibitors participating this year—on view at the city’s Convention Center through Sunday.

From The Wall Street Journal