Hall

/hɔːl/ · noun

Meaning

A corridor; a hallway..

Definitions by Sense

1. A corridor; a hallway.
2. A large meeting room.
3. A manor house (originally because a magistrate's court was held in the hall of his mansion).
4. A building providing student accommodation at a university.
5. The principal room of a secular medieval building.
6. (obsolete) Cleared passageway through a crowd, as for dancing.
7. A place for special professional education, or for conferring professional degrees or licences.
8. (India) A living room.

Example Sentences

The drinking fountain was out in the hall.

We tiptoed into the house, up the stairs and along the hall into the room where the Professor had been spending so much of his time.

The hotel had three halls for conferences, and two were in use by the convention.

The duke lived in a great hall overlooking the sea.

But Kate, the prettiest Kate in Christendome, Kate of Kate-hall.

The student government hosted several social events so that students from different halls would intermingle.

Then cry, a hall, a hall! Come, father Rosin, with your fiddle now.

a Divinity Hall; Apothecaries' Hall

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