town hall
town hall noun: a building that houses the local government offices of a town.
Noun
town hall (plural town halls)
- A building that houses the local government offices of a town.
- Then he commenced to talk, really talk. and inside of two flaps of a herring's fin he had me mesmerized, like Eben Holt's boy at the town hall show. He talked about the ills of humanity, and the glories of health and Nature and service and land knows what all.1913, Joseph C[rosby] Lincoln, chapter IV, in Mr. Pratt’s Patients, New York, N.Y.; London: D[aniel] Appleton and Company, →OCLC
- They enjoyed music from a live saxophonist during the journey before visiting Braintree Town Hall for refreshments and Christmas cake.2021 December 29, “Network News: Music train for dementia sufferers”, in RAIL, number 947, page 19
- The town council.
- Synonyms:
- burgh chambers, city hall, common hall, common house, townhouse
- A widely accessible meeting, particularly where the audience is allowed to interact with the speakers.
- The president plans to speak to a town hall of employees at its headquarters on Monday.
- " […] Sure, you can come down to City Hall when we have a Town Hall Meeting. Write to Maureen Connelly and she'll arrange it. […]"1978, Faith McNulty, “Talk of the Town”, in New Yorker
town hall meaning in Tamil, Kannada, Tagalog and Arabic
town hall in Tamil
- நகர மன்றம்
town hall in Kannada
- ಪುರಭವನ
town hall in Tagalog
- a building that houses the local government offices of a town
- bahay-pamahalaan
town hall in Arabic
- a building that houses the local government offices of a town
- بَلَدِيَّة baladiyya
More languagesFewer languages
- town hall in Indonesian
- balai kota
- town hall in Vietnamese
- toà thị chính
Examples of town hall in a sentence
- And in just a few minutes, we'll bring you tonight's town hall debate from here at Washington University in Saint Louis.2004 October 8, Candidates Prepare for Second Presidential Debate, Paula Zahn (actor):
- The Form 2s are planning to host a town hall meeting with the women of Mara Moja and other local communities to teach the women more effective hygiene practices […]2012 May 3, “Daraja Girls Take Leadership Skills Acquired at the Academy to Their Communities During School Break”, in Daraja Academy...
- That pushback from inside the administration was combined with rising public anger about the cuts that exploded at several lawmakers’ town halls in recent weeks.2025 March 7, Jonathan Lemire, “Is DOGE Losing Steam?”, in The Atlantic:
Synonyms of town hall
- burgh chambers
- city hall
- common hall
- common house
- townhouse
Forms of town hall
| plural | town halls |
|---|---|
| alternative form | townhall |
Questions about town hall
- What does town hall mean?
- Town hall means a building that houses the local government offices of a town.
- What is town hall in Tamil?
- Town hall in Tamil is நகர மன்றம். See Town hall meaning in Tamil.
- How do you use town hall in a sentence?
- And in just a few minutes, we'll bring you tonight's town hall debate from here at Washington University in Saint Louis.
- What part of speech is town hall?
- Town hall is a noun.
- What is the plural of town hall?
- The plural of town hall is town halls.
Words near town hall in the dictionary
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Adapted from Wiktionary: town hall (page history and authors); town hall (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); town hall (Kannada Wiktionary) (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.
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