Meaning of Hall | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A surname.
   countable, uncountable
2. A British and Scandinavian topographic surname from Middle English for someone who lived in or near a hall.
   countable, uncountable
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.
   countable, uncountable
6. A large meeting room.
7. An Anglo-Norman surname.
   countable, uncountable
8. A manor house (originally because a magistrate's court was held in the hall of his mansion).
9. A village in Gelderland, Netherlands.
   countable, uncountable
10. A building providing student accommodation at a university.
11. A number of places in the United States:
    countable, uncountable
12. Former name of Las Lomas, a CDP in California.
    countable, uncountable
13. The principal room of a secular medieval building.
14. An unincorporated community in Morgan County, Indiana.
    countable, uncountable
15. Cleared passageway through a crowd, as for dancing.
    obsolete
16. An unincorporated community in Granite County, Montana.
    countable, uncountable
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.
    countable, uncountable
19. A living room.
    India
20. An unincorporated community in Clark County, Washington.
    countable, uncountable
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.
    countable, uncountable
23. A meal served and eaten at a college's hall.
24. A village in the Australian Capital Territory, Australia.
    countable, uncountable

Equivalents

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”

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