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Definition of 'hall'

Random House Webster's College Dictionary

1. (n.) hall
a corridor or passageway in a building.

2.  hall
the large entrance room of a house or building; vestibule; lobby.

3.  hall
a large room or building for public gatherings; auditorium:
a concert hall.

4.  hall
a large building for residence, instruction, or other purposes at a college or university.

5.  hall
a college that is part of a university.

6.  hall
(in English colleges)

7.  hall
a large room in which the members and students dine.

8.  hall
dinner in such a room.

9.  hall
the chief room in a medieval castle or similar structure, used for eating, sleeping, and entertaining.

10.  hall
the castle, house, or similar structure of a medieval chieftain or noble.

11. (n.) Hall
Charles Francis, 1821–71, U.S. Arctic explorer.

12.  Hall
Charles Martin, 1863–1914, U.S. chemist and metallurgist.

Definition of 'hall'

Princeton's WordNet

1. (noun) hallway, hall
an interior passage or corridor onto which rooms open
"the elevators were at the end of the hall"

2. (noun) anteroom, antechamber, entrance hall, hall, foyer, lobby, vestibule
a large entrance or reception room or area

3. (noun) hall
a large room for gatherings or entertainment
"lecture hall"; "pool hall"

4. (noun) dormitory, dorm, residence hall, hall, student residence
a college or university building containing living quarters for students

5. (noun) manor hall, hall
the large room of a manor or castle

6. (noun) Hall, Radclyffe Hall, Marguerite Radclyffe Hall
English writer whose novel about a lesbian relationship was banned in Britain for many years (1883-1943)

7. (noun) Hall, G. Stanley Hall, Granville Stanley Hall
United States child psychologist whose theories of child psychology strongly influenced educational psychology (1844-1924)

8. (noun) Hall, Charles Martin Hall
United States chemist who developed an economical method of producing aluminum from bauxite (1863-1914)

9. (noun) Hall, Charles Francis Hall
United States explorer who led three expeditions to the Arctic (1821-1871)

10. (noun) Hall, Asaph Hall
United States astronomer who discovered Phobos and Deimos (the two satellites of Mars) (1829-1907)

11. (noun) mansion, mansion house, manse, hall, residence
a large and imposing house

12. (noun) hall
a large building used by a college or university for teaching or research
"halls of learning"

13. (noun) hall
a large building for meetings or entertainment

Definition of 'hall'

Kernerman English Learner’s Dictionary

1. (noun) hall
a long narrow area of a building with doors along it
I saw her in the hall outside the office.; two men walking down the hall

2. hall
the open area just inside the door of a house
Take your shoes off in the hall.

3. hall
a public building or room used regularly for events
a concert hall; a college dining hall

Definition of 'hall'

Webster Dictionary

1. (noun) hall
a building or room of considerable size and stateliness, used for public purposes; as, Westminster Hall, in London

2. (noun) hall
the chief room in a castle or manor house, and in early times the only public room, serving as the place of gathering for the lord's family with the retainers and servants, also for cooking and eating. It was often contrasted with the bower, which was the private or sleeping apartment

3. (noun) hall
a vestibule, entrance room, etc., in the more elaborated buildings of later times

4. (noun) hall
any corridor or passage in a building

5. (noun) hall
a name given to many manor houses because the magistrate's court was held in the hall of his mansion; a chief mansion house

6. (noun) hall
a college in an English university (at Oxford, an unendowed college)

7. (noun) hall
the apartment in which English university students dine in common; hence, the dinner itself; as, hall is at six o'clock

8. (noun) hall
cleared passageway in a crowd; -- formerly an exclamation

Definitions of 'hall'

The Nuttall Encyclopedia

1. hall
or Halle, Edward, English lawyer and historian, born in London; studied law at Gray's Inn; in 1540 he became one of the judges of the Sheriff's Court; his fame rests on his history "The Union of the Two Noble Families of Lancaster and Yorke," a work which sheds a flood of light on contemporary events, and is, moreover, a noble specimen of English prose (1499-1547).

Translation of 'hall'

Kernerman English Multilingual Dictionary

Sense: a room or passage at the entrance to a house We left our coats in the hall.
Afrikaans: voorportaal	Arabic: غُرفَة المَدْخَل	Bulgarian: зала
Brazilian: hall da entrada	Czech: hala	German: die Diele
Danish: entré; hall	Greek: προθάλαμος, χώρος υποδοχή	Spanish: vestíbulo, entrada
Estonian: eesruum	Farsi: سرسرا	Finnish: eteinen
French: entrée	Hebrew: פְּרוֹזדוֹר כְּנִיסָה	Hindi: बड़ा कमरा, प्रधान कक्ष
Croatian: predsoblje, hodnik	Hungarian: előszoba, hall	Indonesian: asrama mahasiswa
Icelandic: forstofa, hol	Italian: atrio	Japanese: 玄関
Korean: 입구의 홀	Lithuanian: prieškambaris	Latvian: vestibils; priekštelpa
Malay: ruang depan	Dutch: hal, vestibule	Norwegian: entré, hall, vestibyle
Polish: hall, korytarz, przedpokó	Persian: سرسرا	Pashto: سالون، لويه خونه، دپوهنتو
Portuguese: hall da entrada	Romanian: hol	Russian: холл
Slovak: hala	Slovenian: predsoba	Serbian: predsoblje
Swedish: hall	Thai: ทางเข้าประตู	Turkish: hol, sofa
Taiwanese: 門廳	Ukrainian: хол, передпокій	Urdu: راہداری
Vietnamese: phòng đợi	Chinese: 门厅
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