hall

plural halls

1. A corridor; a hallway.

   The drinking fountain was out in the hall.

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   We tiptoed into the house, up the stairs and along the hall to the door of the room where the Professor had been spending so much of his time.

   1913, Joseph C[rosby] Lincoln, chapter XIII, in Mr. Pratt’s Patients, New York, N.Y.; London: D[aniel] Appleton and Company, →OCLC, page 304

2. A large meeting room.

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

3. 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.

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   But Kate, the prettiest Kate in Christendome, Kate of Kate-hall.

   c. 1590–1592 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Taming of the Shrew”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene i]

4. A building providing student accommodation at a university.

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

5. The principal room of a secular medieval building.
6. obsoleteCleared passageway through a crowd, as for dancing.

   Then cry, a hall, a hall! Come, father Rosin, with your fiddle now.

   1633 (first performance), Ben Jonson, “A Tale of a Tub. A Comedy […]”, in The Works of Beniamin Jonson, […] (Third Folio), London: […] Thomas Hodgkin, for H[enry] Herringman, E. Brewster, T. Bassett, R[ichard] Chiswell, M. Wotton, G. Conyers, published 1692, →OCLC, (please specify the act number in uppercase Roman numerals, and the scene number in lowercase Roman numerals)

7. A place for special professional education, or for conferring professional degrees or licences.

   a Divinity Hall; Apothecaries' Hall

8. IndiaA living room.
9. A college's canteen, which is often but not always coterminous with a traditional hall.
10. Oxbridge slangA meal served and eaten at a college's hall.

plural Halls

1. A surname.
   1. countableuncountableA British and Scandinavian topographic surname from Middle English for someone who lived in or near a hall.
   2. countableuncountableA surname from German for someone associated with a salt mine.
   3. countableuncountableAn Anglo-Norman surname.
2. countableuncountableA village in Gelderland, Netherlands.
3. A number of places in the United States:
   1. countableuncountableFormer name of Las Lomas, a CDP in California.
   2. countableuncountableAn unincorporated community in Morgan County, Indiana.
   3. countableuncountableAn unincorporated community in Granite County, Montana.
   4. countableuncountableA hamlet and census-designated place in Ontario County, New York.
   5. countableuncountableAn unincorporated community in Clark County, Washington.
   6. countableuncountableAn unincorporated community in Barbour County, West Virginia.
4. countableuncountableA village in the Australian Capital Territory, Australia.

plural Halls

1. UKrail transportHall class, a class of steam locomotive used on the GWR.