Results for hall

Definitions of hall:

part of speech: noun

A large room or passage at the entrance of a house: a large chamber for public business: an edifice in which courts of justice are held: a manor- house ( so called because courts of justice used to be held in them): the edifice of a college: at Oxford, an unendowed college: at Cambridge, a college.

part of speech: noun

A large room; a large room at the entrance of a mansion- house or palace; a court- house; the name often given to the country residence of a nobleman or gentleman; the place of meeting and business of a corporation; the designation of certain colleges in the English universities.

part of speech: noun

A large building or room for the transaction of public business, entertainments, etc.; a court of justice; the passageway into a house; a college dining room; in early times, the main living room of a castle; a vestibule, entrance room, etc.

Usage examples for hall:

• The quiet little country girl had never seen such a hall in her life. "Our Bessie", Rosa Nouchette Carey

• When she went into the house she met Miss Minchin in the hall "Sara Crewe", Frances Hodgson Burnett

• Later came the sound of footsteps and my aunt's voice in the hall outside my room. "The Best Short Stories of 1921 and the Yearbook of the American Short Story", Various

• Roger went out into the hall Come right in here, doctor, won't you? "His Family", Ernest Poole