Word.ws English Dictionary

hall monitor

hall monitor noun: a person responsible for maintaining order in a school's corridors and halls.

Noun

hall monitor (plural hall monitors)

  1. (US) A person responsible for maintaining order in a school's corridors and halls.
  2. (broadly, derogatory) A person who shows or demands deference to authority.
    • (When I got to this part of the podcast, I have to admit, my own inner hall monitor was on high alert.)2025 March 17, Andrew Marantz, “The Battle for the Bros”, in The New Yorker, →ISSN, archived from the original on 17 Mar 2025

Forms of hall monitor

pluralhall monitors

Questions about hall monitor

What does hall monitor mean?
Hall monitor means a person responsible for maintaining order in a school's corridors and halls.
What part of speech is hall monitor?
Hall monitor is a noun.
What is the plural of hall monitor?
The plural of hall monitor is hall monitors.

Words near hall monitor in the dictionary

  1. Hall Green
  2. hall house
  3. hall houses
  4. Hall i' th' Wood
  5. Hall in Tirol
  6. hall monitor
  7. hall monitors
  8. hall of fame
  9. Hall of Famer
  10. Hall of Famers
  11. hall of mirrors

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: hall monitor (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “hall monitor.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/hall_monitor. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.