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
- In the upper right-hand corner of this hall is an office.
- As you said, this is what they call the hall of fame dinner here.
- BLITZER: And you also have in that book what you call a hall of fame of best soundbites ever.
- Xheir verfc £hall give you fame; but more, your own* immortal Wit (hall its great patron boaft,
- Down the hall is an intimate dining room where Michael Phelps enjoyed a bite after winning his first gold.
- They had a press conference earlier today, and they have what they call their hall of shame, very high calorie kid's meals.
- He passed down the narrow little passage, which she called a hall, of the seven and sixpenny house which was his first home.
- Across the hall is a veteran who shouts obscenities while he wonders who killed Vic, presumably a fellow soldier from the war.
- Everything in the hall is amplified equally - not only performers, but candy wrappers, coughers, and rattling programs as well.
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