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Hall

noun

1.

An interior passage or corridor onto which rooms open. Synonym: hallway.

2.

A large entrance or reception room or area. Synonyms: antechamber, anteroom, entrance hall, foyer, lobby, vestibule.

3.

A large room for gatherings or entertainment. "Pool hall"

4.

A college or university building containing living quarters for students. Synonyms: dorm, dormitory, residence hall, student residence.

5.

The large room of a manor or castle. Synonym: manor hall.

6.

English writer whose novel about a lesbian relationship was banned in Britain for many years (1883-1943). Synonyms: Marguerite Radclyffe Hall, Radclyffe Hall.

7.

United States child psychologist whose theories of child psychology strongly influenced educational psychology (1844-1924). Synonyms: G. Stanley Hall, Granville Stanley Hall.

8.

United States chemist who developed an economical method of producing aluminum from bauxite (1863-1914). Synonym: Charles Martin Hall.

9.

United States explorer who led three expeditions to the Arctic (1821-1871). Synonym: Charles Francis Hall.

10.

United States astronomer who discovered Phobos and Deimos (the two satellites of Mars) (1829-1907). Synonym: Asaph Hall.

11.

A large and imposing house. Synonyms: manse, mansion, mansion house, residence.

12.

A large building used by a college or university for teaching or research.

13.

A large building for meetings or entertainment.

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"Hall" Quotes from Famous Books

... for call-over put an end to their talk, and with lighter hearts than most in Willoughby they walked across to the Great Hall and heard the doctor's sentence on ...

— The Willoughby Captains • Talbot Baines Reed

... 1555, the Estates of the Netherlands were assembled in the great hall of the palace at Brussels to witness amidst pomp and splendour the dramatic abdication of Charles V. as sovereign of the Netherlands in favour of his son Philip. The drama was well played. The happiness of the Netherlands was apparently the only object contemplated in the great transaction, ...

— The World's Greatest Books, Vol XII. - Modern History • Arthur Mee

... mounted to the Prince's private chambers, in one of which his servants clad me in fine linen robes after a skilled physician of the household had doctored the bruises upon my thigh over which he tied a bandage spread with balm. Then I was led to a small dining-hall, where I found the Prince waiting for me as though I were some honoured guest and not a poor scribe who had wondered hence from Memphis with my wares. He caused me to sit down at his right hand and even drew up the chair ...

— Moon of Israel • H. Rider Haggard

... what he has written is true," said Florence, "your uncle's youth must have been perfectly appalling. The moment we began to read he plunged straight into a most scandalous story of how he and my father were thrown out of a music-hall in 1887!" ...

— A Wodehouse Miscellany - Articles & Stories • P. G. Wodehouse

... "Black Crook," if less offensive to the taste. The skating parties and gymnastics are also fruitful sources of ill-health. The girl prepares herself for the former by inflating and over-heating her skirts over the register in the hall-floor; a few minutes' exercise chills the hot drapery—what wonder that a morbid bodily sensitiveness follows the insane exposure? No thoughtful person can watch a class of gymnasts, without seeing how extreme and unnatural are many of the attitudes assumed, especially for women. ...

— The Education of American Girls • Anna Callender Brackett

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