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| auditorium |
An auditorium is a large room or building where people gather for a performance or speech. |
| balcony |
an upper floor with rows of seats that juts out into a theater or auditorium. [1/2 definitions] |
| every other |
If you have toast for breakfast every other day, then maybe you have toast on Monday but not Tuesday, and then on Wednesday but not Thursday, and so on. If the students sit in every other chair in the auditorium, then there is an empty chair between each of the students. |
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