hall.
A corridor; a hallway.
Meaning & usage
A corridor; a hallway.
The drinking fountain was out in the hall.
A large meeting room.
The hotel had three halls for conferences, and two were in use by the convention.
A manor house (originally because a magistrate's court was held in the hall of his mansion).
The duke lived in a great hall overlooking the sea.
A building providing student accommodation at a university.
The student government hosted several social events so that students from different halls would intermingle.
The principal room of a secular medieval building.
Cleared passageway through a crowd, as for dancing.
A place for special professional education, or for conferring professional degrees or licences.
a Divinity Hall; Apothecaries' Hall
A living room.
A college's canteen, which is often but not always coterminous with a traditional hall.
A meal served and eaten at a college's hall.
Where this word comes from
Inherited from Middle English halle (“hall”), from Old English heall (“hall, dwelling, house, palace, temple, law-court”), from Proto-West Germanic *hallu (“hall”), from Proto-Germanic *hallō (“hall”), from Proto-Indo-European *ḱel- (“to hide, conceal”). Cognate with Scots hall, haw (“hall”), Dutch hal (“hall”), German Halle (“hall”), Danish hal (“hall, sports centre”), Faroese høll (“hall, palace”), Icelandic höll (“palace”), Norwegian hall (“hall”), Swedish hall (“hall”), Latin cella (“room, cell”), Sanskrit शाला (śā́lā, “house, mansion, hall”). Doublet of cell and cella.
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