Definitions for the word "hall" from multiple English dictionaries.
1. n.
A building or room of considerable size and stateliness, used for public purposes; as, Westminster Hall, in London.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
2. n.
The chief room in a castle or manor house, and in early times the only public room, serving as the place of gathering for the lord's family with the retainers and servants, also for cooking and eating. It was often contrasted with the bower, which was the private or sleeping apartment.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
3. n.
A vestibule, entrance room, etc., in the more elaborated buildings of later times.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
4. n.
Any corridor or passage in a building.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
5. n.
A name given to many manor houses because the magistrate's court was held in the hall of his mansion; a chief mansion house.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
6. n.
A college in an English university (at Oxford, an unendowed college).
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
7. n.
The apartment in which English university students dine in common; hence, the dinner itself; as, hall is at six o'clock.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
8. n.
Cleared passageway in a crowd; -- formerly an exclamation.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
9. n.
1 area into which the front entrance of a house etc. Opens. 2 large room or building for meetings, concerts, etc. 3 large country house or estate. 4 (in full hall of residence) residence for students. 5 (in a college etc.) Dining-room. 6 premises of a guild (fishmongers'' hall). 7 large public room in a palace etc. [old english]
Source: Oxford English Dictionary, 1884
10. slang
THE, Leadenhall Market, among folk who get their livings there,
in the same way as “The Garden” refers to Covent Garden.
Source: The Slang Dictionary, 1864
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