hall
/hɔːl/
A large meeting room; A corridor; a hallway; A building providing student accommodation at a university
- plural
- halls
Meanings
- 1
A large meeting room
This hall can hold 5,000 people.
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- 2
A corridor; a hallway
- 3
A building providing student accommodation at a university
- 4
A manor house (originally because a magistrate's court was held in the hall of his mansion)rare
- 5
The principal room of a secular medieval buildingrare
- 6
Cleared passageway through a crowd, as for dancingrare
- 7
A place for special professional education, or for conferring professional degrees or licencesrare
- 8
A living roomrare
- 9
A college's canteen, which is often but not always coterminous with a traditional hallrare
- 10
A meal served and eaten at a college's hallrare