Hall
[hɔːl] or [hɔl]
Definition
(noun.) a large building for meetings or entertainment.
(noun.) a large room for gatherings or entertainment; 'lecture hall'; 'pool hall'.
(noun.) a large building used by a college or university for teaching or research; 'halls of learning'.
(noun.) United States astronomer who discovered Phobos and Deimos (the two satellites of Mars) (1829-1907).
(noun.) United States explorer who led three expeditions to the Arctic (1821-1871).
(noun.) United States chemist who developed an economical method of producing aluminum from bauxite (1863-1914).
(noun.) United States child psychologist whose theories of child psychology strongly influenced educational psychology (1844-1924).
(noun.) English writer whose novel about a lesbian relationship was banned in Britain for many years (1883-1943).
Edited by Jeremy--From WordNet
Definition
(n.) A building or room of considerable size and stateliness, used for public purposes; as, Westminster Hall, in London.
(n.) 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.
(n.) A vestibule, entrance room, etc., in the more elaborated buildings of later times.
(n.) Any corridor or passage in a building.
(n.) A name given to many manor houses because the magistrate's court was held in the hall of his mansion; a chief mansion house.
(n.) A college in an English university (at Oxford, an unendowed college).
(n.) The apartment in which English university students dine in common; hence, the dinner itself; as, hall is at six o'clock.
(n.) Cleared passageway in a crowd; -- formerly an exclamation.
Editor: Myra
Synonyms and Synonymous
n. [1]. Large room, chamber.[2]. Entry (of a house), entrance.[3]. Manor-house.
Edited by Everett
Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Moiety, bisection, dimidiation
ANT:Integrity, entirety, totality, whole
Typist: Nora
Definition
n. a large room or passage at the entrance of a house: a large chamber for public business—for meetings or for the sale of particular goods: an edifice in which courts of justice are held: a manor-house: the main building of a college and in some cases as at Oxford and Cambridge the specific name of a college itself: an unendowed college: a licensed residence for students: the great room in which the students dine together—hence also the dinner itself: a place for special professional education or for conferring professional degrees or licenses as a Divinity Hall Apothecaries' Hall.—ns. Hall′age toll paid for goods sold in a hall; Hall′-door the front door of a house.—A hall! a hall! a cry at a mask or the like for room for the dance &c.; Bachelor's hall a place free from the restraining presence of a wife; Liberty hall a place where every one can do as he pleases.
Checker: Lyman
Unserious Contents or Definition
To dream of a city hall, denotes contentions and threatened law suits. To a young woman this dream is a foreboding of unhappy estrangement from her lover by her failure to keep virtue inviolate.
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Examples
- Meantime the whole hall was in a stir; most people rose and remained standing, for a change; some walked about, all talked and laughed. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- Michaelmas term lately over, and the Lord Chancellor sitting in Lincoln's Inn Hall. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- Then they moved across, through the hall, to the other front room, that was a little smaller than the firSt. 'This is the study,' said Hermione. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- As for society, he was carried every other day into the hall where the boys dined, and there sociably flogged as a public warning and example. Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist.
- I reckoned our coach to be about a square of Westminster-hall, but not altogether so high: however, I cannot be very exact. Jonathan Swift. Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World.
- Prepare the Castle-hall for the trial of the sorceress. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
- Westminster Hall itself is a shady solitude where nightingales might sing, and a tenderer class of suitors than is usually found there, walk. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- No one chanced to be about, and she got down to the hall in quiet. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- You are not a servant at the hall, of course. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- You can beat Tammany Hall permanently in one way--by making the government of a city as human, as kindly, as jolly as Tammany Hall. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- If a gas jet is turned on and not lighted, an odor of gas soon becomes perceptible, not only throughout the room, but in adjacent halls and even in distant rooms. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
- A little population occupied its halls. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- Its grandeur-- its treasure of paintings, its magnificent halls were objects soothing and even exhilarating. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- The first floor is divided off into two large rooms--parlor and living-room--and the upper floors contain four large bedrooms, a roomy bath-room, and wide halls. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- Everybody knows that when you close the dance halls you fill the parks. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- She sent me under guard to this room just before the fighting began within the temple halls. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
- They meet the evils of dance halls by barricading them; they go forth to battle against vice by raiding brothels and fining prostitutes. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- Thou hast earned one in the halls of Rotherwood, noble knight. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
- The primitive custom of both Aryans and Mongols of holding great feasts in halls still held good, and there was much hard drinking. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Halls of slavery, Ma, is mere stuff and nonsense,' returned the unmoved Irrepressible. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
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