hall

UK/hɔːl/

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Australia/hoːl/

hall noun: a corridor; a hallway.

Noun (1)

hall (plural halls)

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.1913, Joseph C[rosby] Lincoln, chapter XIII, in Mr. Pratt’s Patients, New York, N.Y.; London: D[aniel] Appleton and Company, →OCLC
A large meeting room.
- The hotel had three halls for conferences, and two were in use by the convention.
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.c. 1590–1592 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Taming of the Shrew”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward]...
A building providing student accommodation at a university.
- The student government hosted several social events so that students from different halls would intermingle.
The principal room of a secular medieval building.
(obsolete) Cleared passageway through a crowd, as for dancing.
- Then cry, a hall, a hall! Come, father Rosin, with your fiddle now.1633 (first performance), Ben Jonson, “A Tale of a Tub. A Comedy […]”, in The Works of Beniamin Jonson, […] (Third Folio), London: […] Thomas Hodgkin, for H[enry] Herringman, E. Brewster, T. Bassett...
A place for special professional education, or for conferring professional degrees or licences.
- a Divinity Hall; Apothecaries' Hall
(India) A living room.
A college's canteen, which is often but not always coterminous with a traditional hall.
(Oxbridge slang) A meal served and eaten at a college's hall.

Proper noun capitalized: Hall

Hall (countable and uncountable, plural Halls)

A British and Scandinavian topographic surname from Middle English for someone who lived in or near a hall.
A surname from German for someone associated with a salt mine.
An Anglo-Norman surname.
A village in Gelderland, Netherlands.
Former name of Las Lomas, a CDP in California.
An unincorporated community in Morgan County, Indiana.
An unincorporated community in Granite County, Montana.
A hamlet and census-designated place in Ontario County, New York.
An unincorporated community in Clark County, Washington.
An unincorporated community in Barbour County, West Virginia.
A village in the Australian Capital Territory, Australia.

Noun (2) capitalized: Hall

Hall (plural Halls)

(UK) Hall class, a class of steam locomotive used on the GWR.

hall meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Marathi and Urdu

hall in Hindi

hall: साल sāl
hall, chamber: आगार āgār

hall in Tamil

corridor or a hallway: நடைபாதை naṭaipātai
large meeting room: அரங்கம் araṅkam, மன்றம் maṉṟam

hall in Urdu

hall: ایوان aivān, سال sāl
hall, chamber: آگار āgār

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hall in Bengali: হল hol
hall in Telugu: హాలు hālu, కూటము kūṭamu
hall in Malayalam: ഹാൾ, പ്രധാന പ്രവേശനമുറി, തളം, നടപ്പുര
hall in Kannada: ಹಜಾರ, ತೊಟ್ಟಿ, ದಿವಾನಖಾನೆ, ಮುನ್ನಂಗಳ
hall in Punjabi: ਹਾਲ
hall in Gujarati: હોલ, હૉલ
hall in Odia: ହଲ୍, ହଲ
hall in Assamese: শালি xali
hall in Nepali: हलघर
hall in Tagalog: bulwagan
hall in Arabic: قَاعَة qāʕa, صَالَة ṣāla, مَهْجَع mahjaʕ
hall in Indonesian: aula
hall in Vietnamese: phòng

Examples of hall in a sentence

The queen bore the royal scepter and crown as she processed into the hall.
There must be something wrong with the hall clock. It is always fast.
City hall has its place, but this pub is the real heart of the town.

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Forms of hall

Noun
plural	halls
plural	Halls
Proper noun
plural	Halls

Plural of hall: halls

Origin of hall

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.

* As an English, Scottish, Irish, German, Norwegian, Danish, Swedish surname: all from the noun hall. The name was likely reinforced by similar sounding words such as Swedish häll (“rock slab”). * As a Chinese surname, variant Romanization of 何, 賀 /贺 (hè), see He. ** (locomotive): The locomotives were named after English and Welsh country houses with 'Hall' in their titles. ** (British and Scandinavian surnames): From the buildings, halls

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Questions about hall

What does hall mean?: Hall means a corridor; a hallway.
What is hall in Hindi?: Hall in Hindi is साल (sāl), आगार (āgār). See Hall meaning in Hindi.
What part of speech is hall?: Hall can be a noun or a proper noun.
How do you pronounce hall?: Hall is pronounced /hɔːl/ (UK).
What is the plural of hall?: The plural of hall is halls.

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Last updated: 2026-09-02

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