Hall - definition, pronunciation, transcription

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Amer.  |hɔːl|  American pronunciation of the word hall
Brit.  |hɔːl|  British pronunciation of the word hall

noun

- an interior passage or corridor onto which rooms open (syn: hallway)
the elevators were at the end of the hall
- a large entrance or reception room or area (syn: antechamber, anteroom, foyer, lobby, vestibule)
- a large room for gatherings or entertainment
lecture hall
pool hall
- a college or university building containing living quarters for students (syn: dorm, dormitory)
- the large room of a manor or castle
- English writer whose novel about a lesbian relationship was banned in Britain for many years (1883-1943)
- United States child psychologist whose theories of child psychology strongly influenced educational psychology (1844-1924)
- United States chemist who developed an economical method of producing aluminum from bauxite (1863-1914)
- United States explorer who led three expeditions to the Arctic (1821-1871)
- United States astronomer who discovered Phobos and Deimos (the two satellites of Mars) (1829-1907)
- a large and imposing house (syn: manse, mansion, residence)
- a large building used by a college or university for teaching or research
halls of learning
- a large building for meetings or entertainment

Extra examples

The bathroom is down the hall.

Her office is at the end of the hall.

I'll meet you in the front hall.

The front door opens onto a large hall.

We rented a hall for the wedding reception.

We hung our coats in a cupboard in the hall.

Each floor had ten rooms on both sides of the hall.

The school has a new sports hall.

Five hundred people filled the lecture hall.

A coffee morning is to be held in the village hall.

For a brief time they had shared a room in hall.

He waited out in the hall.

Her office is all the way up the hall on the right.

He paced up and down the hall, waiting for news about his wife's operation.

The bathroom is halfway down the hall on the right.

Word forms

noun
singular: hall
plural: halls
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