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Hall

//haːl// name, noun

Definitions

Proper Noun
  1. 1
    A surname.; A British and Scandinavian topographic surname from Middle English for someone who lived in or near a hall. countable, uncountable
  2. 2
    A surname.; A surname from German for someone associated with a salt mine. countable, uncountable
  3. 3
    A surname.; An Anglo-Norman surname. countable, uncountable
  4. 4
    A village in Gelderland, Netherlands. countable, uncountable
  5. 5
    A number of places in the United States:; Former name of Las Lomas, a CDP in California. countable, uncountable
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  1. 6
    A number of places in the United States:; An unincorporated community in Morgan County, Indiana. countable, uncountable
  2. 7
    A number of places in the United States:; An unincorporated community in Granite County, Montana. countable, uncountable
  3. 8
    A number of places in the United States:; A hamlet and census-designated place in Ontario County, New York. countable, uncountable
  4. 9
    A number of places in the United States:; An unincorporated community in Clark County, Washington. countable, uncountable
  5. 10
    A number of places in the United States:; An unincorporated community in Barbour County, West Virginia. countable, uncountable
  6. 11
    A village in the Australian Capital Territory, Australia. countable, uncountable
Noun
  1. 1
    A corridor; a hallway.

    "The drinking fountain was out in the hall."

  2. 2
    Hall class, a class of steam locomotive used on the GWR. UK
  3. 3
    a large entrance or reception room or area wordnet
  4. 4
    A large meeting room.

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

  5. 5
    a college or university building containing living quarters for students wordnet
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  1. 6
    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."

  2. 7
    a large building for meetings or entertainment wordnet
  3. 8
    A building providing student accommodation at a university.

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

  4. 9
    a large room for gatherings, receiving guests, or entertainment wordnet
  5. 10
    The principal room of a secular medieval building.
  6. 11
    a large building used by a college or university for teaching or research wordnet
  7. 12
    Cleared passageway through a crowd, as for dancing. obsolete

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

  8. 13
    an interior passage or corridor onto which rooms open wordnet
  9. 14
    A place for special professional education, or for conferring professional degrees or licences.

    "a Divinity Hall; Apothecaries' Hall"

  10. 15
    the large room of a manor or castle wordnet
  11. 16
    A living room. India
  12. 17
    a large and imposing house wordnet
  13. 18
    A college's canteen, which is often but not always coterminous with a traditional hall.
  14. 19
    A meal served and eaten at a college's hall.

Etymology

Etymology 1

Inherited from Middle English halle (“hall”), from Old English heall (“hall, dwelling, house, palace, temple, law-court”), from Proto-West Germanic *hallu (“hall”), from Proto-Germanic *hallō (“hall”), from Proto-Indo-European *ḱel- (“to hide, conceal”). Cognate with Scots hall, haw (“hall”), Dutch hal (“hall”), German Halle (“hall”), Danish hal (“hall, sports centre”), Faroese høll (“hall, palace”), Icelandic höll (“palace”), Norwegian hall (“hall”), Swedish hall (“hall”), Latin cella (“room, cell”), Sanskrit शाला (śā́lā, “house, mansion, hall”). Doublet of cell and cella.

Etymology 2

* As an English, Scottish, Irish, German, Norwegian, Danish, Swedish surname: all from the noun hall. The name was likely reinforced by similar sounding words such as Swedish häll (“rock slab”). * As a Chinese surname, variant Romanization of 何, 賀 /贺 (hè), see He. ** (locomotive): The locomotives were named after English and Welsh country houses with 'Hall' in their titles. ** (British and Scandinavian surnames): From the buildings, halls

Etymology 3

* As an English, Scottish, Irish, German, Norwegian, Danish, Swedish surname: all from the noun hall. The name was likely reinforced by similar sounding words such as Swedish häll (“rock slab”). * As a Chinese surname, variant Romanization of 何, 賀 /贺 (hè), see He. ** (locomotive): The locomotives were named after English and Welsh country houses with 'Hall' in their titles. ** (British and Scandinavian surnames): From the buildings, halls

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