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halls

halls is the plural of hall.

Noun (1)

halls pl (plural only)

  1. (UK, plural, plural-only, uncountable) Student accommodation
    • He was chatting to a couple of girls so I went over and introduced myself, said, "Hello, I er... I’m in the same halls as you." He just looked at me and said, "And?"2004, K. Woodley, quoting an anonymous student, “Let the data sing: representing discourse in poetic form”, in Oral History, volumes 31-32, page 49
    • 'I had a massive argument with my parents about moving into halls and they even tried to bribe me a bit and said, "You know, if you don't go into halls we'll give you the money that you would have paid in halls as a gift."2008, Anshuman Ahmed Mondal, Young British Muslim Voices, page 15
  2. (UK, dated, plural, plural-only) The music halls; variety theatre.
    • 'That was most enjoyable, my dear James. You really ought to go on the halls.'1953, Ian Fleming, “The Nature of Evil”, in Casino Royale, London: Pan Books, published 1955, page 146

Meaning of hall

Noun

hall (plural halls)

  1. A corridor; a hallway.
    • The drinking fountain was out in the hall.
  2. A large meeting room.
    • The hotel had three halls for conferences, and two were in use by the convention.
  3. 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.
  4. A building providing student accommodation at a university.
    • The student government hosted several social events so that students from different halls would intermingle.
  5. The principal room of a secular medieval building.
  6. (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...

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Noun (2) capitalized: Halls

Halls

  1. (plural) plural of Hall

Proper noun (1) capitalized: Halls

Halls

  1. (plural) plural of Hall

Proper noun (2) capitalized: Halls

Halls (countable and uncountable, plural Hallses)

  1. A surname.
  2. An unincorporated community in Bartow County, Georgia.
  3. An unincorporated community in Buchanan County, Missouri, formerly named Eveline.
  4. A town in Lauderdale County, Tennessee.

Synonyms of halls

Forms of halls

pluralHallses

Origin of halls

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Words formed from halls

Phrases with halls

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Questions about halls

What does halls mean?
Halls means student accommodation.
What is halls the plural of?
Halls is the plural of hall.
What part of speech is halls?
Halls can be a noun or a proper noun.

Words near halls in the dictionary

  1. hallpass
  2. hallpasses
  3. Hallpike
  4. Hallquist
  5. Hallquists
  6. halls
  7. Halls Creek
  8. Halls Flat
  9. Halls Gap
  10. halls of fame
  11. halls of mirrors

Source and license

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