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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