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hall (iou) - Pest Star


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hall (iou)



hall noun. .

A place, orig. spec. a large place, covered by a roof; in early use, any spacious roofed place; a temple, a palace, a court. obsolete exc. as passing into specific senses below and with specifying word. OE.
banqueting-hall, city hall, dancehall, dining-hall, entrance-hall, guildhall, music hall, town hall, village hall, etc.
A large residence, esp. of a landed proprietor; a mansion. Now chiefly in names or with the (referring to a specific local hall). OE.
A. Trollope He would certainly sell Vavasor Hall in spite of all family associations.
A large public room in a mansion, palace, etc., used for receptions and banquets. ME.
T. Hardy Maryann..show them in to me in the hall.
A house or building belonging to a guild or fraternity. ME.
A large room or building for public gatherings. ME.
Dumfries & Galloway Standard The church would provide an elegant hall capable of seating approximately 250.
b. A formal assembly called by the monarch, or by the principal officer of a town. M16-L17.
c. A music hall. Usu. in pl. M19.
S. Brett And then you toured the halls as a double-act?
At Oxford and Cambridge Universities: orig., any of the educational institutions including the colleges (now arch. or Hist.); later spec., an educational institution which is not a corporate body and whose property is held in trust, as opp. to a college. LME.
b. A building, administered by a university, polytechnic, etc., in which students live (also hall of residence); an establishment of higher education in certain university towns, sometimes with (usu. restricted) affiliation to the university. L19.
In a college, university, polytechnic, etc.: the dining-room for all members of the institution. Hence, dinner in a hall. L16.
Thomas Hughes You ought to dine in hall perhaps four days a week. Hall is at five o'clock.
The entrance-passage or entrance-room of a house; a vestibule; (chiefly N. Amer.) a corridor, a passage. M17.
S. Spender There was a stone-tiled hall..out of which doors led.
Phrases: a hall! a hall! interjection clear the way! make room! (esp. for dancing). bachelor's hall: see BACHELOR. Exeter hall: see EXETER noun 2. Hall of Fame (chiefly N. Amer.) a building containing memorials etc. of famous people; fig. the class of those who are most celebrated (in a particular sphere). hall of residence: see sense 6b above. liberty hall: see LIBERTY noun. medical hall: see MEDICAL adjective. servants' hall a common-room or dining-room for servants in a house. Tammany Hall: see TAMMANY. the Hall spec. Westminster Hall, formerly the seat of the High Court of Justice.
Comb.: hall bedroom US a small bedroom partitioned off the end of a hall; hall boy a page-boy, a call-boy in a hotel; hall door the door of a hall; the front door of a house; hall house a manor house; a house (esp. a medieval one) with a hall as a distinguishing feature; hall porter the porter in charge of the hall of a hotel and esp. responsible for the care of guests' luggage; hall-stand a piece of furniture for hanging coats etc. on, kept in an entrance-hall; hall table (a) a large table for a (dining-)hall; (b) a small table for an entrance-hall; hall tree US a hall stand; hallway an entrance-hall or corridor.

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