hall

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   A passage or area inside a building that connects rooms.

   Her office is at the end of the hall.

2. 2
   noun

   A large room or building used for meetings, events, or performances.

   The concert was held in the town hall.

3. 3
   noun

   A building where university students live.

   She lived in a student hall during her first year.

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.

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