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Hall   /hɔl/   Listen
noun
Hall  n.  
1.
A building or room of considerable size and stateliness, used for public purposes; as, Westminster Hall, in London.
2.
(a)
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. "Full sooty was her bower and eke her hall." Hence, as the entrance from outside was directly into the hall:
(b)
A vestibule, entrance room, etc., in the more elaborated buildings of later times. Hence:
(c)
Any corridor or passage in a building.
3.
A name given to many manor houses because the magistrate's court was held in the hall of his mansion; a chief mansion house.
4.
A college in an English university (at Oxford, an unendowed college).
5.
The apartment in which English university students dine in common; hence, the dinner itself; as, hall is at six o'clock.
6.
Cleared passageway in a crowd; formerly an exclamation. (Obs.) "A hall! a hall!"
Synonyms: Entry; court; passage. See Vestibule.





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"Hall" Quotes from Famous Books



... the House of Commons, who, "trembling slightly with emotion," declared the sitting suspended, needs in his business the calm of the late Fred Hall. While Mr. Hall was city editor of this journal of civilization an irate subscriber came in and mixed it with a reporter. Mr. Hall approached the pair, who were rolling on the floor, and, peering near-sightedly at ...
— The So-called Human Race • Bert Leston Taylor
... resolute to consult his friend on the obligations that he owed to his neighbors in general, and to Miss Milroy in particular, no Midwinter was to be seen. On making inquiry, it appeared that he had been observed in the hall; that he had taken from the table a letter which the morning's post had brought to him; and that he had gone back immediately to his own room. Allan at once ascended the stairs again, and knocked ...
— Armadale • Wilkie Collins
... high-living patrons from all over Europe; the Cafe Guerbois, near the rue de St. Petersburg, where Manet, the impressionist, after many vicissitudes, won fame for his paintings and held court for many years; the Chat Noir, on the rue Victor Masse at Montmartre, a blend of cafe and concert hall, which has since been imitated widely, both ...
— All About Coffee • William H. Ukers
... fellows out on the sidewalk if I'd been Mrs. Hicks," laughed Morris. "I know that old lady—I used to stop with her myself when I was building the town hall—and she's good as gold. And now tell me how MacFarlane is getting on—building a railroad, isn't he? He told me about ...
— Peter - A Novel of Which He is Not the Hero • F. Hopkinson Smith
... succeeded in obtaining the entree to the St. Petersburg magazines; and while the Russian critics were at a loss how to regard the new genius, the public went wild. He visited the capital in 1899, and there was intense curiosity to see and to hear him. A great hall was engaged, and when he mounted the platform to read, the young people in the ...
— Essays on Russian Novelists • William Lyon Phelps


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