hall
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- Regno Unito//hɔːl//
- Australia//hoːl//
- Scozia//hɔl//
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A corridor; a hallway.
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A corridor; a hallway.
The drinking fountain was out in the hall.
We tiptoed into the house, up the stairs and along the hall into the room where the Professor had been spending so much of his time.
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A large meeting room.
The hotel had three halls for conferences, and two were in use by the convention.
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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.
But Kate, the prettiest Kate in Christendome, Kate of Kate-hall.
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A building providing student accommodation at a university.
The student government hosted several social events so that students from different halls would intermingle.
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The principal room of a secular medieval building.
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obsoletoCleared passageway through a crowd, as for dancing.
Then cry, a hall, a hall! Come, father Rosin, with your fiddle now.
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A place for special professional education, or for conferring professional degrees or licences.
a Divinity Hall; Apothecaries' Hall
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A living room.
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A college's canteen, which is often but not always coterminous with a traditional hall.
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A meal served and eaten at a college's hall.
Etimologia
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.
Forme
- plurale
- halls