Meanings
- historicalobsoleteA place where unmarried men live.
Boston's laborers and seamen crowded into tiny wooden two-family houses or “bachelor's halls,” many of which were located near the wharves.
2007, Benjamin L. Carp, Rebels Rising: Cities and the American Revolution1 more example
Proskouriakoff (1962a:89) observed that the central Mexican young men's houses or “bachelor's halls” were dispersed around Tenochtitlan and were not listed among Sacred Precinct edifices.
2014, Marilyn Masson, Kukulcan's Realm: Urban Life at Ancient Mayapán
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bachelor's hall. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/bachelor's%20hall
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