hall

CEFRA1

/hɔːl/

noun

Türkçe translations

Translating…

In plain English

  1. 01

    noun

    A passage inside a building connecting rooms.

  2. 02

    noun

    A large room used for meetings or events.

Examples

  • Her brother was standing in the front hall.

  • The excited audience ran into the concert hall.

At a glance

Sits at A1 on the CEFR scale

Senses
5
Parts of speech
1
Citations
3

Also pronounced

  • /haːl/
  • /hoːl/

Deep Dive

noun

Extra meanings

  1. A large meeting room.

  2. A manor house (originally because a magistrate's court was held in the hall of his mansion).

  3. A corridor; a hallway.

More examples

In context

  • The student hall is for benefit of the students.

  • The drinking fountain was out in the hall.

  • The duke lived in a great hall overlooking the sea.

Quick test

Two questions on this entry. Nothing is scored.

Question 1 · Quick check

The students gathered in the large school blank for assembly.

Practise this properly in the app, where the word comes back before you forget it.

Nearby

Origin

noun

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.