Hall \Hall\ (h[add]l), n. [OE. halle, hal, AS. heal, heall; akin
to D. hal, OS. & OHG. halla, G. halle, Icel. h["o]ll, and
prob. from a root meaning, to hide, conceal, cover. See
Hell, Helmet.]
1. A building or room of considerable size and stateliness,
used for public purposes; as, Westminster Hall, in London.
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2.
(a) 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.
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Full sooty was her bower and eke her hall.
--Chaucer.
Hence, as the entrance from outside was directly into
the hall:
(b) A vestibule, entrance room, etc., in the more
elaborated buildings of later times. Hence:
(c) Any corridor or passage in a building.
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3. A name given to many manor houses because the magistrate's
court was held in the hall of his mansion; a chief mansion
house. --Cowell.
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4. A college in an English university (at Oxford, an
unendowed college).
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5. The apartment in which English university students dine in
common; hence, the dinner itself; as, hall is at six
o'clock.
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6. Cleared passageway in a crowd; -- formerly an exclamation.
[Obs.]
"A hall! a hall!" --B. Jonson.
Syn: Entry; court; passage. See Vestibule.
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Source: The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
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163 Moby Thesaurus words for "hall":
Dymaxion house, Elizabethan theater, Globe Theatre, Greek theater,
White House, access, adit, adobe house, agora, air lock,
amphitheater, approach, arcade, areaway, arena, arena theater,
assembly hall, athletic field, auditorium, background, bear garden,
bowl, boxing ring, breezeway, building, bull ring, cabaret, campus,
canvas, casa, chapel, circle theater, circus, classroom,
classroom building, cliff dwelling, cloister, club, cockpit,
coliseum, colonnade, colosseum, concert hall, consulate,
convention hall, corridor, couloir, country house, country seat,
course, dacha, dance hall, deanery, dwelling house, edifice,
embassy, entrance, entranceway, entry, entryway, erection,
exhibition hall, fabric, farm, farmhouse, field, floor, forum,
foyer, gallery, gangplank, gangway, ground, gym, gymnasium,
hallway, hippodrome, house, houseboat, in, ingress, inlet, intake,
lake dwelling, lecture hall, lists, little red schoolhouse,
little theater, living machine, lobby, locale, lodge, loggia,
manor house, manse, marketplace, mat, means of access,
meetinghouse, milieu, music hall, night spot, nightclub,
open forum, opening, opera, opera house, outdoor theater,
palaestra, parade ground, parsonage, passage, passageway,
penthouse, pergola, peristyle, pit, place, platform, playhouse,
precinct, prefabricated house, presidential palace, prize ring,
public square, purlieu, ranch house, range, rectory, ring, roof,
scene, scene of action, scenery, school building, schoolhouse,
setting, showboat, site, skyscraper, sod house, sphere,
split-level, squared circle, stadium, stage, stage set,
stage setting, structure, terrain, theater, theater-in-the-round,
theatre, theatron, tilting ground, tiltyard, town house, vestibule,
vicarage, walk, way, way in, wrestling ring
Source: Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
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Hall \Hall\, n. [OE. halle, hal, AS. heal, heall; akin to D.
hal, OS. & OHG. halla, G. halle, Icel. h["o]lt, and prob.
from a root meaning, to hide, conceal, cover. See Hell,
Helmet.]
1. A building or room of considerable size and stateliness,
used for public purposes; as, Westminster Hall, in London.
2.
(a) 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.
Full sooty was her bower and eke her hall.
--Chaucer.
Hence, as the entrance from outside was directly into
the hall:
(b) A vestibule, entrance room, etc., in the more
elaborated buildings of later times. Hence:
(c) Any corridor or passage in a building.
3. A name given to many manor houses because the magistrate's
court was held in the hall of his mansion; a chief mansion
house. --Cowell.
4. A college in an English university (at Oxford, an
unendowed college).
5. The apartment in which English university students dine in
common; hence, the dinner itself; as, hall is at six
o'clock.
6. Cleared passageway in a crowd; -- formerly an exclamation.
[Obs.]
``A hall! a hall!'' --B. Jonson.
Syn: Entry; court; passage. See Vestibule.
Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
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