English Explanatory Dictionary

hall

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. A corridor; a hallway.
  2. A large meeting room.
  3. A manor house (originally because a magistrate's court was held in the hall of his mansion).
  4. A building providing student accommodation at a university.
  5. The principal room of a secular medieval building.
  6. Cleared passageway through a crowd, as for dancing.
  7. A place for special professional education, or for conferring professional degrees or licences.
  8. A living room.
  9. A college's canteen, which is often but not always coterminous with a traditional hall.
  10. A meal served and eaten at a college's hall.
name
  1. A surname.
  2. A British and Scandinavian topographic surname from Middle English for someone who lived in or near a hall.
  3. A surname from German for someone associated with a salt mine.
  4. An Anglo-Norman surname.
  5. A village in Gelderland, Netherlands.
  6. A number of places in the United States:
  7. Former name of Las Lomas, a CDP in California.
  8. An unincorporated community in Morgan County, Indiana.
  9. An unincorporated community in Granite County, Montana.
  10. A hamlet and census-designated place in Ontario County, New York.
  11. An unincorporated community in Clark County, Washington.
  12. An unincorporated community in Barbour County, West Virginia.
noun
  1. Hall class, a class of steam locomotive used on the GWR.

Pronunciation

/hɔːl/ /haːl/ /hɔl/ /hɑl/ en-us-hall.ogg

Word forms

hall halls

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.

Related words

Hall in Tirol Halls

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
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