aquarium
/əˈkwɛɹiəm/
nouna building in which sea creatures, such as fish, sharks, etc., are kept and displayed for the public
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1. The aquarium was hugely important to Monterey.
2. An aquarium IS the lighting fixture.
3. You like aquariums?
4. Can one of you open up the aquarium here?
5. People use the aquarium as a night light.
art gallery
/ˈɑːɹt ɡˈælɚɹi/
nouna building where works of art are exhibited to the public
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1. The place is the Ritesville town art gallery.
2. The dashboard of the Rolls-Royce Phantom can even become a bespoke art gallery.
3. The Art Gallery has this work.
4. Think of your room as an art gallery.
5. The fantasy hideaway is more of an art gallery than a treehouse.
assembly room
/ɐsˈɛmbli ɹˈuːm/
nouna public building, room, or hall for holding meetings and social events
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auction room
/ˈɔːkʃən ɹˈuːm/
nouna room of a building where things are sold to whoever offers the highest price for them
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1. Also out of the Treasury is the belt with powder flask Pouches for bullets all covered in velvet and in beautifully embroidered I've seen very poor examples Coming up for sale occasionally in the auction rooms, but that is just fantastic
auditorium
/ˌɔdəˈtɔɹiəm/
nouna large building or hall where people are gathered to attend a concert, public speech, play, etc.
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1. Ronald Reagan did the auditorium speech.
2. And that auditorium at the other end is somebody else's.
3. The auditorium was empty.
4. At 2:15, this auditorium will reopen.
5. And we filled the auditorium.
bowling alley
/bˈoʊlɪŋ ˈæli/
nouna building or a room where the game of bowling can be played
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1. We're not saying these businesses can start having large gatherings at the Bowling Alley.
2. You have Bowling Alley talent.
3. What ELSE is down there with the Bowling Alley.
4. This is what the Bowling Alley looks like.
5. That day we arrived to the Bowling Alley.
movie theater
/mˈuːvi θˈiəɾɚ/
nouna place where we go to watch movies
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1. Movie theaters are like theme parks or carnivals.
2. Are these movie theater snacks?
3. But real talk, movie theaters closing is not a Hollywood-specific issue.
4. Movie theaters are awesome.
5. Did you guys make a movie theater?
club
/ˈkɫəb/
nounthe building, rooms, or facilities that a specific club uses
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1. They brag that their golf clubs are identical to the ones used by professional golfers.
2. For example, some glyptodonts had clubs.
3. My word is "club."
4. The clubs were juggling clubs.
5. - We all have clubs.
clubhouse
/ˈkɫəbˌhaʊs/
nouna building where members of a club can participate in meetings and social events, often a sports club
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1. My clubhouse went up in flames.
2. That platform clubhouse take talk podcast, YouTube, Instagram.
3. Clubhouse is Snapchat.
4. - So can a Clubhouse survive?
5. Whether clubhouse is huge in a year or not.
court
/ˈkɔɹt/
nounthe place in which legal trials are held
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1. The company courted massive interest from hundreds of cities.
2. And the court then has to make a determination.
3. Trump sees courts as just another political body.
4. Courts cite this Aristotelian account of equity all over the place.
5. Then both men left court.
courthouse
/ˈkɔɹtˌhaʊs/
nouna building containing law courts
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1. Immigration agents will also curtail arrests in or near courthouses.
2. Um, a courthouse was taken over.
3. Blacks took over the courthouse in Colfax.
4. The courthouse is right around the corner.
5. And we basically cast a courthouse.
crematorium
/kɹiməˈtɔɹiəm/
nouna building for burning the dead bodies of people, often as a funeral ceremony
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1. Crematoriums are backed up, sometimes for days.
2. Corpses were lying around in front of the crematorium.
3. But the crematorium was destroyed as well.
4. The crematoriums are on the other side in that part, at Auschwitz.
5. These coffins go straight to the crematorium.
parking garage
/pˈɑːɹkɪŋ ɡɐɹˈɑːʒ/
nouna building, often having many stories, that provides spaces for people to put their cars in for a duration of time
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fire station
/fˈaɪɚ stˈeɪʃən/
nouna building that houses firefighters as well as their equipment
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1. During the day, they staff a school, post office, fire station, a security force, and a medical center.
2. Was it by the fire station?
3. That is the fire station, ladies and gentlemen, to your right.
4. This is a fire station.
5. This is a fire station.
hall
/ˈhɔɫ/
nouna large room or a building that various events, such as meetings, concerts, etc., are held in
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1. We listened to the laughing and talking in the hall, as the guests were welcomed by their host and his housekeeper.
2. Hall phase is here.
3. Hall passes.
4. - Attendance hall pass.
5. - Deck the halls.
hospice
/ˈhɑspəs/
nouna healthcare facility for people who are terminally ill, where their emotional and practical needs are met
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1. They started Hospice care sooner.
2. Briony works in a hospice.
3. So actually, initially, palliative care meant hospice.
4. We do hospice care together.
5. His father is in hospice care.
hospital
/ˈhɑˌspɪtəɫ/
nouna large building where sick or injured people receive medical treatment and care
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1. Dad is going to need help when he leaves hospital.
2. She told me that my mother died in hospital.
3. Hospitals still face massive overcrowding.
4. Again, hospital is straight ahead.
5. Hospitals use two and a half times the amount of energy as office buildings.
hostel
/ˈhɑstəɫ/
nouna place or building that provides cheap food and accommodations for visitors
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1. Life for mostof these workers is confined to the factory floor and adormitory in a migrant's hostel.
2. And they found a hostel.
3. - This is a Hostel Saw.
4. Consider youth hostels, especially in the more expensive cities around the world.
5. It reminds me of Hostel.
library
/ˈɫaɪbɹɛˌɹi/
nouna room or building in which collections of books, newspapers, etc. and sometimes films and music are kept for people to read or borrow
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1. Libraries are for everyone.
2. Libraries are learning places.
3. Libraries have pulled books from shelves.
4. So what role can libraries play?
5. Libraries are full of knowledge.
lighthouse
/ˈɫaɪtˌhaʊs/
nouna large structure, such as a tower, placed near the coast and equipped with a powerful light that guides or warns the approaching ships
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1. So you get lots of lighthouses?
2. Duncansby Head lighthouse marks the most northeasterly point of the British mainland, almost 880 miles from Land's End in the southwest of England.
3. Today's word is lighthouse.
4. The word lighthouse is a noun.
5. A lighthouse has a beam of light.
mall
/ˈmɔɫ/
nouna large building or enclosed area, where many stores are placed
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1. Thousands of people stand in The Mall to see the Queen and the soldiers go past.
2. The rise of big box stores like Walmart, discount retailers like HomeGoods, and the transition to e-commerce weighed on malls too.
3. Mall cops have guns in 1994. -
4. They loved their mall.
5. Every mall needs a play structure in it.
morgue
/ˈmɔɹɡ/
nouna room or building where the bodies of dead people are kept before they are buried in a cemetery or burned in a crematory
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1. Morgues are weird.
2. The morgue, one of the more important morgues was here also.
3. Dead people go to the morgue.
4. The dead man was sent to the morgue.
5. Morgue is a mixture of both.
mortuary
/ˈmɔɹtʃuˌɛɹi/
nouna building or a room, often in a hospital, where dead bodies are temporarily kept before burial or cremation
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1. The mortuary is Clarity Funerals and Cremation-- Very cool.
2. You do not study mortuary sciences.
3. Stephanie does mortuary sciences.
4. Oh Miguel, I literally just gave away mortuary sciences.
5. She's not Mortuary.
pavilion
/pəˈvɪɫjən/
nouna temporary structure, such as a tent or stand, in which exhibitions and public events are held
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1. Today, the pavilion isn't open to the public.
2. Now the pavilion is a big landmark here
3. There's 250 pavilions.
4. Dion installed a tennis pavilion, a simulated golf range, and a pool house with a full kitchen.
5. We're passing the Mexico pavilion.