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.