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Hall

Noun CEFR B1
hɔːl

Definitions

  1. A surname.
  2. A British and Scandinavian topographic surname from Middle English for someone who lived in or near a hall.
  3. A corridor; a hallway.
  4. Hall class, a class of steam locomotive used on the GWR.
    UK
  5. A surname from German for someone associated with a salt mine.
  6. A large meeting room.
  7. An Anglo-Norman surname.
  8. A manor house (originally because a magistrate's court was held in the hall of his mansion).
  9. A village in Gelderland, Netherlands.
  10. A building providing student accommodation at a university.
  11. A number of places in the United States:
  12. Former name of Las Lomas, a CDP in California.
  13. The principal room of a secular medieval building.
  14. An unincorporated community in Morgan County, Indiana.
  15. Cleared passageway through a crowd, as for dancing.
  16. An unincorporated community in Granite County, Montana.
  17. A place for special professional education, or for conferring professional degrees or licences.
  18. A hamlet and census-designated place in Ontario County, New York.
  19. A living room.
  20. An unincorporated community in Clark County, Washington.
  21. A college's canteen, which is often but not always coterminous with a traditional hall.
  22. An unincorporated community in Barbour County, West Virginia.
  23. A meal served and eaten at a college's hall.
  24. A village in the Australian Capital Territory, Australia.

Equivalents

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Azərbaycan dilizal
Беларускаяінтэрнат
Българскизала
Catalàcorredor
Cymraegneuadd
Dansksal
Esperantohalo
Gàidhligtalla
हिन्दीआगारसाल
Íslenskasalur
Қазақ тілізал
Latviešuzāle
Portuguêscorredorhallsaguãosalão
Shqipsalle
Svenskasal
Tagalogbulwagan
Türkçedalanholkoridorsalon

Examples

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

CEFR level

B1
Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B1 vocabulary — intermediate level.
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