HALL

anteroom, antechamber, entrance hall, hall, foyer, lobby, vestibule

(noun) a large entrance or reception room or area

dormitory, dorm, residence hall, hall, student residence

(noun) a college or university building containing living quarters for students

hall

(noun) a large building for meetings or entertainment

hall

(noun) a large room for gatherings or entertainment; “lecture hall”; “pool hall”

hall

(noun) a large building used by a college or university for teaching or research; “halls of learning”

hallway, hall

(noun) an interior passage or corridor onto which rooms open; “the elevators were at the end of the hall”

mansion, mansion house, manse, hall, residence

(noun) a large and imposing house

Hall, Asaph Hall

(noun) United States astronomer who discovered Phobos and Deimos (the two satellites of Mars) (1829-1907)

Hall, Charles Francis Hall

(noun) United States explorer who led three expeditions to the Arctic (1821-1871)

Hall, Charles Martin Hall

(noun) United States chemist who developed an economical method of producing aluminum from bauxite (1863-1914)

Hall, G. Stanley Hall, Granville Stanley Hall

(noun) United States child psychologist whose theories of child psychology strongly influenced educational psychology (1844-1924)

Hall, Radclyffe Hall, Marguerite Radclyffe Hall

(noun) English writer whose novel about a lesbian relationship was banned in Britain for many years (1883-1943)

Source: WordNet® 3.1

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Etymology

The locomotives were named after English and Welsh country houses with 'Hall' in their titles.

Proper noun

Hall (plural Halls)

A British and Scandinavian topographic surname for someone who lived in or near a hall.

A surname of German origin for someone associated with a salt mine.

An Anglo-Norman surname.

Noun

Hall (plural Halls)

(UK, rail transport) Hall class, a class of steam locomotive used on the GWR.

A surname.

Statistics

• According to the 2010 United States Census, Hall is the 45^th most common surname in the United States, belonging to 407,076 individuals. Hall is most common among White (72.7%) and Black/African American (21.6%) individuals.

Etymology

Noun

hall (plural halls)

A corridor; a hallway.

A meeting room.

A manor house (originally because a magistrate's court was held in the hall of his mansion).

A building providing student accommodation at a university.

The principal room of a secular medieval building.

(obsolete) Cleared passageway through a crowd, as for dancing.

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

(India) A living room.

Source: Wiktionary

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Hall, n. Etym: [OE. halle, hal, AS. heal, heall; akin to D. hal, OS. & OHG. halla, G. halle, Icel. hölt, 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 Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition

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