town halls

Noun

town hall (plural town halls)

1. 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
2. (broadly) The town council.

   Synonyms:

   burgh chambers, city hall, common hall, common house, townhouse

3. (Canada, US) 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.