hall
Listen:Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
hall/hɔːl/
▶noun
- 1 the room or space just inside the front entrance of a house.
■ N. Amer. a corridor in a building.
- 2 a large room for meetings, concerts, etc.
■ the dining room of a college, university, or school.
■ the principal living room of a medieval house.
- 3 (also hall of residence) Brit. a university building in which students live.
- 4 Brit. a large country house.
- 5 historical the premises of a guild.
– origin OE hall, heall; of Gmc origin.
'hall' also found in these Oxford entries:
assembly rooms
- atrium
- auditorium
- bal musette
- basilica
- cabildo
- chamber organ
- citadel
- city hall
- commons
- dance hall
- dormitory
- floor
- foyer
- gallery
- gigolo
- guildhall
- gymnasium
- haler
- hallmark
- Hall of Fame
- hall porter
- hallstand
- hallway
- high table
- hippodrome
- hooligan
- Liberty Hall
- loft
- Lyceum
- megaron
- mess hall
- music hall
- palais
- poolroom
- pronaos
- rathskeller
- saloon
- steward
- study hall
- sty
- Tammany
- titch
- tollbooth
- town hall
- town house
- Valhalla
- vestibule
