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ancestral hall

ancestral hall noun: an ancestral shrine.

Noun

ancestral hall (plural ancestral halls)

  1. An ancestral shrine.
    • Wu Hai, whose objections to contamination of the patrilineal line were cited above, described an ancestral hall (tz'u-t'ang) of the Lins of Lo-t'ien (Hupei).1986, Patricia Buckley Ebrey, James L. Watson, editors, Kinship Organization in Late Imperial China 1000-1940, University of California Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 51

Forms of ancestral hall

pluralancestral halls

Questions about ancestral hall

What does ancestral hall mean?
Ancestral hall means an ancestral shrine.
What part of speech is ancestral hall?
Ancestral hall is a noun.
What is the plural of ancestral hall?
The plural of ancestral hall is ancestral halls.

Words near ancestral hall in the dictionary

  1. ancestour
  2. ancestours
  3. ancestral
  4. ancestral chart
  5. ancestral charts
  6. ancestral hall
  7. ancestral halls
  8. ancestral name
  9. ancestral names
  10. Ancestral Puebloan
  11. Ancestral Puebloans

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