hall
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: 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.
Inflected forms:
form: halls
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A corridor; a hallway.
pos: noun
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.
gloss: A large meeting room.
pos: noun
examples: The hotel had three halls for conferences, and two were in use by the convention.
gloss: A manor house (originally because a magistrate's court was held in the hall of his mansion).
pos: noun
examples: The duke lived in a great hall overlooking the sea.
But Kate, the prettiest Kate in Christendome, Kate of Kate-hall.
gloss: A building providing student accommodation at a university.
pos: noun
examples: The student government hosted several social events so that students from different halls would intermingle.
gloss: The principal room of a secular medieval building.
pos: noun
gloss: Cleared passageway through a crowd, as for dancing.
pos: noun
tags: obsolete
examples: Then cry, a hall, a hall! Come, father Rosin, with your fiddle now.
gloss: A place for special professional education, or for conferring professional degrees or licences.
pos: noun
examples: a Divinity Hall; Apothecaries' Hall
gloss: A living room.
pos: noun
tags: India
gloss: A college's canteen, which is often but not always coterminous with a traditional hall.
pos: noun
gloss: A meal served and eaten at a college's hall.
pos: noun
Derived words: ancestral hall
assembly hall
audience hall
bachelor's hall
barangay hall
beer hall
BHK
booking hall
chow hall
cinema hall
city hall
cloth hall
concert hall
dance hall
dancehall
dance-hall
dining hall
dining-hall
drill hall
exhibition hall
firehall
fire hall
food hall
Forest Hall
formal hall
gift hall
great hall
guildhall
guild-hall
hallage
hallcest
hall church
hallful
Hall Green
hall house
hallite
Hall i' th' Wood
hallmark
hall-mark
hallmate
hall monitor
hallmote
hall of fame
hall-of-famer
hall of mirrors
hall of residence
hall of shame
hall pass
hallpass
hall porter
hallstand
hall test
hall tree
hallway
Hampden Hall
Hams Hall
Hereford Hall
hiring hall
interhall
juvenile hall
Keith Hall
Lea Hall
lecture hall
linen hall
Lostock Hall
mead hall
Meadowhall
mess hall
Midge Hall
moot hall
moot-hall
music hall
Newton Hall
Northop Hall
ordination hall
Park Hall
permanent private hall
pool hall
rec hall
recreation hall
residence hall
riding hall
ring-hall
Rocky Hall
Scale Hall
slaughterhall
sports hall
stair hall
study hall
ticket hall
town hall
Trungley Hall
village hall
Whitehall
White Hall
woolhall
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