hall
/hɔl/ noun A1- A corridor; a hallway. · The drinking fountain was out in the hall.
- A large meeting room. · The hotel had three halls for conferences, and two were in use by the convention.
- A manor house (originally because a magistrate's court was held in the hall of his mansion). · The duke lived in a great hall overlooking the sea.
- A building providing student accommodation at a university. · The student government hosted several social events so that students from different halls would intermingle.
- The principal room of a secular medieval building.
- A place for special professional education, or for conferring professional degrees or licences. · a Divinity Hall; Apothecaries' Hall
- A living room.
- A college's canteen, which is often but not always coterminous with a traditional hall.
Plural halls
From the library
Sherlock Holmes chuckled to himself, and appeared to be about to make some remark, when Lestrade, who had been in the front room while we were holding this conversation in the hall, reappeared upon the scene, rubbing his hands in a pompous and self-satisfied manner.
The white-faced servants were huddling together in the hall, with the frightened butler wringing his hands in the doorway.
THE moon has a face like the clock in the hall;
“I’d just the one candle that was in my hand; but there was a good light from the hall lamp through the open door.
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