hall

IPA: hˈɔɫ

noun

  • A corridor; a hallway.
  • A large meeting room.
  • A manor house (originally because a magistrate's court was held in the hall of his mansion).
  • A building providing student accommodation at a university.
  • The principal room of a secular medieval building.
  • (obsolete) Cleared passageway through a crowd, as for dancing.
  • A place for special professional education, or for conferring professional degrees or licences.
  • (India) A living room.
  • (Oxbridge) A college's canteen, which is often but not always coterminous with a traditional hall.
  • (Oxbridge slang) A meal served and eaten at a college's hall.
  • A surname.
  • A British and Scandinavian topographic surname from Middle English for someone who lived in or near a hall.
  • A surname from German for someone associated with a salt mine.
  • An Anglo-Norman surname.
  • A village in Gelderland, Netherlands.
  • A number of places in the United States:
  • Former name of Las Lomas, a CDP in California.
  • An unincorporated community in Morgan County, Indiana.
  • An unincorporated community in Granite County, Montana.
  • A hamlet and census-designated place in Ontario County, New York.
  • An unincorporated community in Clark County, Washington.
  • An unincorporated community in Barbour County, West Virginia.
  • A village in the Australian Capital Territory, Australia.
  • (UK, rail transport) Hall class, a class of steam locomotive used on the GWR.
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Examples of "hall" in Sentences

  • The scene was placed in the halls.
  • The ancestral hall is at the center.
  • The recumbent bicycle is in the hall.
  • Hall is the founder and CEO of the Eureka
  • A stairway with landing is at the end of the hall.
  • Inside the ancillary, hall is the main prayer hall.
  • The adjacent passage linked the kitchen to the hall in the east range.
  • The Column Hall and the Caryatid Hall were decorated by Michael Scotti.
  • Banker and philanthropist stay at the hall lived in the hall in about 1825.
  • More recently the hall and manor house have been the homes of the Coke family.

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