hall

About 54.69 uses per million words.

Meaning

1. noun A corridor; a hallway.

   The drinking fountain was out in the hall.

2. noun A large meeting room.

   The hotel had three halls for conferences, and two were in use by the convention.

3. noun 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.

4. noun A building providing student accommodation at a university.

   The student government hosted several social events so that students from different halls would intermingle.

5. noun The principal room of a secular medieval building.
6. noun Cleared passageway through a crowd, as for dancing.
7. noun A place for special professional education, or for conferring professional degrees or licences.

   a Divinity Hall; Apothecaries' Hall

8. noun A living room.

Similar words

foyer hallway anteroom lobby antechamber vestibule entrance hall dorm dormitory mansion

Often followed by

of and in was to is at with on

Word family

Charles Francis Hall Charles M. Hall Charles Martin Hall G Stanley Hall G. Stanley Hall Granville Stanley Hall Hall James Norman Hall Jeffrey C Hall Jeffrey C. Hall