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gift halls

gift halls is the plural of gift hall.

Meaning of gift hall

Noun

gift hall (plural gift halls)

  1. A large communal building used in early Germanic and Norse societies as a place where valuable gifts were distributed to loyal warriors, thanes, retainers, etc.
    • Then morning came and many a warrior
      gathered,as I've heard, around the gift-hall,
      clan chiefs flocking from far and near[.]1999, Seamus Heaney, Beowulf, London: Faber and Faber, page 27

Questions about gift halls

What is gift halls the plural of?
Gift halls is the plural of gift hall.

Words near gift halls in the dictionary

  1. gift from the gods
  2. gift from the heavens
  3. gift giver
  4. gift givers
  5. gift hall
  6. gift halls
  7. gift horse
  8. gift horses
  9. gift matching
  10. gift of gab
  11. gift of the gab

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