Definition of hall in English:

hall

noun hɔːlhɔl

1The room or space just inside the front entrance of a house or flat.
（住房或公寓前门内的）门厅，门廊，玄关
Example sentencesExamples
- It has a reception hall, lounge cum dining room, kitchen, bathroom and bedroom.
- An enclosed porch with double doors leads to a wide hall with maple flooring.
- Set on five acres, there is a reception hall, drawing room, anteroom, dining room, kitchen, pantry, four bedrooms and a bathroom.
- The property is entered through a large porch which leads into a reception hall.
- Behind the panelled front door is a hall with plenty of character.
- On both sides of the drop-off area is a large reception hall finished with a rich mix of Italian stone.
- Entrance to the accommodation is through a wide hall with a shelved cloakroom.
- Steps lead to the front door, and entrance is through a spacious hall with polished timber floorboards.
- Three other reception rooms can all be reached from the drawing room or the reception hall.
- The walls in the reception hall and dining room are covered with glazed Egyptian cotton canvas.
Synonyms
entrance hall, hallway, entry, entrance, lobby, foyer, vestibule, reception area, atrium, concourse
passageway, passage, corridor
North American entryway
1. 1.1North American A corridor or area on to which rooms open.
  〈北美〉过道，走廊
  Example sentencesExamples
  I walked out of my room and down the hall, opening the door that was two doors down from his.
  Opening the door, Serenity tiptoed across the hall and opened the door to Haley's room.
  Halfway down the hall a door opened and Anthony stepped out of his suite into the hallway.
  Judging form the light, it was about mid afternoon when the door at the end of the hall rattled open and a man came walking up the corridor, heels clicking against concrete.
  I walked down the hall and opened the door to the room where I saw a lot of other people.
  Afterwards, she would lie in bed and listen as he crept down the hall and opened the door to my room.
  I'd heard stories about them, I had to see more, so I walked down the hall and pushed open the door.
  It is as contemporary as today's headlines and as close as your colleague down the hall.
  Successfully completed, the students and I could hardly wait to put them on display in the hall.
  I run down the hall and open the door of the room, and see Rikki, collapsed on the floor.
  Students could be given the chance, for example, to regulate the tone of voice they use in the halls.
  Through her closed door, Bri heard her father's bedroom door from across the hall slowly squeak open.
  Trying to knock down the bedroom door with the skillet, I was able to see another door opening across the hall.
  She dashed down the hall and threw open the door to her room with a thud.
  Immediately off the hallway is a kitchen, with a large open plan living and dining area further down the hall.
  The elevator was empty as she rose to the chief's level, making her way down the hall to the designated meeting room.
  I turned charismatic on the spot and began shouting around my office and up and down the hall at the University of New Mexico.
  She tiptoed quietly to her room down the hall and opened the door; she looked around.
  I turned left down the hall and quietly opened the door to Spane's bedroom.
  Just as they reached the door, the room across the hall opened up, and an older couple came out.
  Synonyms
  entrance hall, hallway, entry, entrance, lobby, foyer, vestibule, reception area, atrium, concourse
2A building or large room used for meetings, concerts, or other events.
会堂，礼堂，大厅
the village hall
Example sentencesExamples
- In pubs and clubs, halls and meeting rooms, Scots dressed in tartan for this, the most traditional night in their social calendar, and to stand while the Haggis was piped in.
- A large new sports hall has been built to the east of the complex next to existing open-air sports facilities.
- Immediately he began touring the islands, putting notices up in village halls and organising community meetings.
- Future phases will include a music and fine arts hall and a major performing arts center.
- Further round, over the entrance to the dark hall, is a well appointed lecture hall.
- From here, a long ramp winds up to a triple-height exhibition hall on the first floor.
- At the southeast corner of the site, a new lecture hall complements the research tower.
- The exterior design of the new addition was to provide a nearly seamless expansion of the original historic hall.
- Once held in the bride's family home, the celebration is now often held at a local hall or country club.
- The show has been packing halls around the country with its combination of top quality characters, high production and sheer entertainment.
- As well as the temple, the Community Centre has a sports facility, a stage with a 600-seater auditorium and several meeting rooms and halls.
- More than 45 people turned up for the meeting at the village hall last night to voice their concern at what has become a controversial issue.
- The pubs and the village hall all have big car parks.
- One of the many unique aspects of this hall is the potential to adjust the reverberation time.
- Managed by Seamus Cox from Aghamore, the band travelled the length and breath of the country playing to packed halls and marquees.
- The penultimate floor is given over to a circular exhibition hall clad in a scaly copper skin.
- One wall is covered with a few score study models of Disney's performance hall.
- The theatres and halls around this country that were dead and quiet are now ringing with a whole lot of activity, and that is no small thanks to a whole lot of effort from this Government.
- It would not necessarily have to be a new building but could be a hall or meeting place the Jewish community could use.
- On the west side, a trio of exhibition foyers connects with a 350 seat conference hall.
Synonyms
assembly hall, assembly room, meeting room, large public room, chamber
conference hall, lecture room, theatre, concert hall, auditorium, dance hall, church hall, village hall, town hall, guildhall
1. 2.1historical The building in which a guild was housed.
  （行会的）办公楼，会所
  Example sentencesExamples
  The upper floor was the great hall where guild members met.
  The medieval hall, in Coffee Yard, off Stonegate, in York, is also putting on special Viking activities for children.
  Barley Hall was a former medieval hall which was acquired by York Archeological Trust in the 1980s when the site came up for redevelopment.
  He persuaded the council that the medieval hall must be saved.
  Beside the Patursson family home is the medieval hall, which is opened to the public during the summer months.
3A large room in a mansion or palace used for receptions and banquets.
（官邸或宫殿内接待或宴会用的）大厅
Example sentencesExamples
- The King left the lavish room for the banquet hall, leaving Shyra and Gaiden to finish preparing.
- It was the shapeless figure he had met in his dream, the man standing in the shadows of an ancient and dead coronation hall.
- The great big hall in the manor had been filled with vampires and a few of Emma's closest, more understanding friends.
- In the rear hall of Ganyu Palace, at the top, is the Rice Flowing Hole.
- The palace banquet hall was lovely, as always, and the food, delicious.
- In Budapest, the dance was in a huge hall converted from a palace.
- He built palaces and banqueting halls on the hill and held meetings of the other provincial kings every three years at which time they made laws and held festivals of music and sport.
- If that was not enough, nobles of both countries thronged the hall.
- These timber posts were revealed under the great hall of the present stone manor and the demolished north end solar.
- He'd walked the various courtyards, banquet halls and audience rooms during the few times when the Inner Circle had been required to meet.
- The banquet hall had been full of the court dressed in their finery.
- Finally, they fetched us from the room and brought us down through the kitchen to the banquet hall.
- The first floor houses a reception room and a banquet hall.
- The sight filled the Daghda with resolution and he and his three warriors stormed in through the door of the banquet hall.
- According to these reports, the royal family gathered for an evening meal in the banquet hall of the palace.
- The rest of the palace, Timon's room and the banquet halls, had collapsed in a head of dust and smoke.
1. 3.1British in names A large country house, especially one with a landed estate.
  〈英〉（庄园里的）府第，邸宅
  Darlington Hall
  达令顿府。
  Example sentencesExamples
  The original features of the hall's reception rooms, previously sub-divided into small offices, can now be seen again.
  When businessman Bill Reidy ploughed his savings into renovating a derelict 17th Century hall he believed he had created his dream home.
2. 3.2 The principal living room of a medieval house.
  （中世纪寓所的）主厅，会客厅
  Example sentencesExamples
  In the living hall was a large central hearth and a raised wooden platform along each wall, which would have been used for seating, sleeping and as a working space.
  Thegns with fewer resources also established churches, often next to their own halls; and increasingly they were made from stone.
  Like most other farms in Anglo-Saxon England, Linstede consists of a hall and outbuildings, surrounded by fields and pastures.
  Svensholm is a small Viking homestead, comprising a large hall and a few outbuildings.
4British A university building containing rooms for students to live in.
〈主英〉（大学）宿舍楼
for a brief time they had shared a room in hall
Example sentencesExamples
- In Ibadan 30 Polytechnic students were wounded when police threw tear gas into their halls of residence.
- I'm staying in a youth hostel which, for the other 11 months of the year when there's no major festival going on is a university hall of residence.
- It happened on Friday evening as players, many of them accompanied by their parents, were relaxing at the student hall of residence in south Manchester.
- Students, who will live at the University's halls of residence, will also get the chance to meet current students from the School of Engineering, Design & Technology, as well as academic staff.
- How it would help the tiny minority of students actually working at the GWH to be physically near to the halls of residence of the students studying English literature defeats me.
- Some colleges even provide faculty with living quarters in the residence halls.
- Actually, maybe there was one time, when I threw up on the steps of the University of London post-grad hall of residence in Paddington in my second week in London in 1981.
- It takes him 35 minutes to drive to his job managing the student the halls of residence at Leeds Metropolitan University.
- I have to be visible in the campus center and in the residence halls and at sporting events and at all these things that make up the lives of the people here.
- Residence halls have not usually been considered critical components in community colleges.
- I suppose at my advanced age I am more inclined to the comfortable surroundings of a posh city centre hotel, rather than a university hall of residence.
- Letters have also been sent to wardens of university halls of residence warning them to monitor students' health.
- It was the halls of residence at Scarborough University.
- I know they are in one of the bin liners I stuffed full of clothes when I was politely asked to vacate my hall of residence at the University of Westingshire.
- Some colleges are building residence halls with an emphasis on private, single rooms.
- The quad was abandoned; and the university halls sat, their pillared gates and walls silent and moss-covered in the evening.
- The Yorkshire Post understands she had signed up for two months' French study with the Alliance Francaise in Lyon and was living in a university hall of residence.
1. 4.1 The room used for meals in a college, university, or school.
  （学校的）食堂
  he dined in hall
  他在食堂吃饭。
  Example sentencesExamples
  It was really easy to learn how to hate meals in the dining hall.
  I could not understand why a meal in the hall should cause this alarm.
  We reached the meal hall in scant enough time to have our names marked off on the role and find a place on the long, very conference like table and order our meal on the menu.
  We sat in hall silently when the news was announced, the College is just stunned.

Origin

Old English hall, heall (originally denoting a roofed space, located centrally, for the communal use of a tribal chief and his people); of Germanic origin and related to German Halle, Dutch hall, also to Norwegian and Swedish hall.

Rhymes

all, appal (US appall), awl, Bacall, ball, bawl, befall, Bengal, brawl, call, caul, crawl, Donegal, drawl, drywall, enthral (US enthrall), fall, forestall, gall, Galle, Gaul, haul, maul, miaul, miscall, Montreal, Naipaul, Nepal, orle, pall, Paul, pawl, Saul, schorl, scrawl, seawall, Senegal, shawl, small, sprawl, squall, stall, stonewall, tall, thrall, trawl, wall, waul, wherewithal, withal, yawl

Definition of hall in US English:

hall

nounhɔlhôl

1North American An area in a building onto which rooms open; a corridor.
Example sentencesExamples
- Opening the door, Serenity tiptoed across the hall and opened the door to Haley's room.
- I turned charismatic on the spot and began shouting around my office and up and down the hall at the University of New Mexico.
- The elevator was empty as she rose to the chief's level, making her way down the hall to the designated meeting room.
- Through her closed door, Bri heard her father's bedroom door from across the hall slowly squeak open.
- She dashed down the hall and threw open the door to her room with a thud.
- Judging form the light, it was about mid afternoon when the door at the end of the hall rattled open and a man came walking up the corridor, heels clicking against concrete.
- Afterwards, she would lie in bed and listen as he crept down the hall and opened the door to my room.
- I walked down the hall and opened the door to the room where I saw a lot of other people.
- I walked out of my room and down the hall, opening the door that was two doors down from his.
- Trying to knock down the bedroom door with the skillet, I was able to see another door opening across the hall.
- Students could be given the chance, for example, to regulate the tone of voice they use in the halls.
- She tiptoed quietly to her room down the hall and opened the door; she looked around.
- I'd heard stories about them, I had to see more, so I walked down the hall and pushed open the door.
- I turned left down the hall and quietly opened the door to Spane's bedroom.
- It is as contemporary as today's headlines and as close as your colleague down the hall.
- Just as they reached the door, the room across the hall opened up, and an older couple came out.
- Successfully completed, the students and I could hardly wait to put them on display in the hall.
- I run down the hall and open the door of the room, and see Rikki, collapsed on the floor.
- Halfway down the hall a door opened and Anthony stepped out of his suite into the hallway.
- Immediately off the hallway is a kitchen, with a large open plan living and dining area further down the hall.
Synonyms
entrance hall, hallway, entry, entrance, lobby, foyer, vestibule, reception area, atrium, concourse
1. 1.1 The room or space just inside the front entrance of a house or apartment.
  （住房或公寓前门内的）门厅，门廊，玄关
  the hall at the front contains a spiral staircase
  Example sentencesExamples
  An enclosed porch with double doors leads to a wide hall with maple flooring.
  Entrance to the accommodation is through a wide hall with a shelved cloakroom.
  Behind the panelled front door is a hall with plenty of character.
  Steps lead to the front door, and entrance is through a spacious hall with polished timber floorboards.
  The walls in the reception hall and dining room are covered with glazed Egyptian cotton canvas.
  Three other reception rooms can all be reached from the drawing room or the reception hall.
  The property is entered through a large porch which leads into a reception hall.
  On both sides of the drop-off area is a large reception hall finished with a rich mix of Italian stone.
  Set on five acres, there is a reception hall, drawing room, anteroom, dining room, kitchen, pantry, four bedrooms and a bathroom.
  It has a reception hall, lounge cum dining room, kitchen, bathroom and bedroom.
  Synonyms
  entrance hall, hallway, entrance, entry, porch, portico, reception area, atrium, concourse, lobby, vestibule, anteroom, antechamber, outer room, waiting room
2A large room for meetings, concerts, or other events.
会堂，礼堂，大厅
in names Carnegie Hall
Example sentencesExamples
- It would not necessarily have to be a new building but could be a hall or meeting place the Jewish community could use.
- The exterior design of the new addition was to provide a nearly seamless expansion of the original historic hall.
- Future phases will include a music and fine arts hall and a major performing arts center.
- On the west side, a trio of exhibition foyers connects with a 350 seat conference hall.
- At the southeast corner of the site, a new lecture hall complements the research tower.
- One of the many unique aspects of this hall is the potential to adjust the reverberation time.
- Once held in the bride's family home, the celebration is now often held at a local hall or country club.
- Immediately he began touring the islands, putting notices up in village halls and organising community meetings.
- The show has been packing halls around the country with its combination of top quality characters, high production and sheer entertainment.
- Further round, over the entrance to the dark hall, is a well appointed lecture hall.
- More than 45 people turned up for the meeting at the village hall last night to voice their concern at what has become a controversial issue.
- A large new sports hall has been built to the east of the complex next to existing open-air sports facilities.
- In pubs and clubs, halls and meeting rooms, Scots dressed in tartan for this, the most traditional night in their social calendar, and to stand while the Haggis was piped in.
- As well as the temple, the Community Centre has a sports facility, a stage with a 600-seater auditorium and several meeting rooms and halls.
- One wall is covered with a few score study models of Disney's performance hall.
- The theatres and halls around this country that were dead and quiet are now ringing with a whole lot of activity, and that is no small thanks to a whole lot of effort from this Government.
- The pubs and the village hall all have big car parks.
- Managed by Seamus Cox from Aghamore, the band travelled the length and breath of the country playing to packed halls and marquees.
- From here, a long ramp winds up to a triple-height exhibition hall on the first floor.
- The penultimate floor is given over to a circular exhibition hall clad in a scaly copper skin.
Synonyms
assembly hall, assembly room, meeting room, large public room, chamber
1. 2.1 A large public room in a mansion or palace used for receptions and banquets.
  （官邸或宫殿内接待或宴会用的）大厅
  Example sentencesExamples
  The banquet hall had been full of the court dressed in their finery.
  If that was not enough, nobles of both countries thronged the hall.
  He built palaces and banqueting halls on the hill and held meetings of the other provincial kings every three years at which time they made laws and held festivals of music and sport.
  He'd walked the various courtyards, banquet halls and audience rooms during the few times when the Inner Circle had been required to meet.
  The sight filled the Daghda with resolution and he and his three warriors stormed in through the door of the banquet hall.
  In Budapest, the dance was in a huge hall converted from a palace.
  The rest of the palace, Timon's room and the banquet halls, had collapsed in a head of dust and smoke.
  These timber posts were revealed under the great hall of the present stone manor and the demolished north end solar.
  It was the shapeless figure he had met in his dream, the man standing in the shadows of an ancient and dead coronation hall.
  The King left the lavish room for the banquet hall, leaving Shyra and Gaiden to finish preparing.
  The great big hall in the manor had been filled with vampires and a few of Emma's closest, more understanding friends.
  According to these reports, the royal family gathered for an evening meal in the banquet hall of the palace.
  Finally, they fetched us from the room and brought us down through the kitchen to the banquet hall.
  The first floor houses a reception room and a banquet hall.
  The palace banquet hall was lovely, as always, and the food, delicious.
  In the rear hall of Ganyu Palace, at the top, is the Rice Flowing Hole.
2. 2.2British The room used for meals in a college, university, or school.
  （学校的）食堂
  he dined in hall
  他在食堂吃饭。
  Example sentencesExamples
  I could not understand why a meal in the hall should cause this alarm.
  We sat in hall silently when the news was announced, the College is just stunned.
  It was really easy to learn how to hate meals in the dining hall.
  We reached the meal hall in scant enough time to have our names marked off on the role and find a place on the long, very conference like table and order our meal on the menu.
3. 2.3 A college or university building containing classrooms, residences, or rooms for other purposes.
  Example sentencesExamples
  I have to be visible in the campus center and in the residence halls and at sporting events and at all these things that make up the lives of the people here.
  Some colleges even provide faculty with living quarters in the residence halls.
  Residence halls have not usually been considered critical components in community colleges.
  It happened on Friday evening as players, many of them accompanied by their parents, were relaxing at the student hall of residence in south Manchester.
  It takes him 35 minutes to drive to his job managing the student the halls of residence at Leeds Metropolitan University.
  Letters have also been sent to wardens of university halls of residence warning them to monitor students' health.
  Students, who will live at the University's halls of residence, will also get the chance to meet current students from the School of Engineering, Design & Technology, as well as academic staff.
  The Yorkshire Post understands she had signed up for two months' French study with the Alliance Francaise in Lyon and was living in a university hall of residence.
  The quad was abandoned; and the university halls sat, their pillared gates and walls silent and moss-covered in the evening.
  Some colleges are building residence halls with an emphasis on private, single rooms.
  I'm staying in a youth hostel which, for the other 11 months of the year when there's no major festival going on is a university hall of residence.
  How it would help the tiny minority of students actually working at the GWH to be physically near to the halls of residence of the students studying English literature defeats me.
  I suppose at my advanced age I am more inclined to the comfortable surroundings of a posh city centre hotel, rather than a university hall of residence.
  It was the halls of residence at Scarborough University.
  I know they are in one of the bin liners I stuffed full of clothes when I was politely asked to vacate my hall of residence at the University of Westingshire.
  In Ibadan 30 Polytechnic students were wounded when police threw tear gas into their halls of residence.
  Actually, maybe there was one time, when I threw up on the steps of the University of London post-grad hall of residence in Paddington in my second week in London in 1981.
4. 2.4 The principal living room of a medieval house.
  （中世纪寓所的）主厅，会客厅
  Example sentencesExamples
  Like most other farms in Anglo-Saxon England, Linstede consists of a hall and outbuildings, surrounded by fields and pastures.
  In the living hall was a large central hearth and a raised wooden platform along each wall, which would have been used for seating, sleeping and as a working space.
  Thegns with fewer resources also established churches, often next to their own halls; and increasingly they were made from stone.
  Svensholm is a small Viking homestead, comprising a large hall and a few outbuildings.
3British usually in names A large country house, especially one with a landed estate.
〈英〉（庄园里的）府第，邸宅
Darlington Hall
达令顿府。
Example sentencesExamples
- When businessman Bill Reidy ploughed his savings into renovating a derelict 17th Century hall he believed he had created his dream home.
- The original features of the hall's reception rooms, previously sub-divided into small offices, can now be seen again.

Origin

Old English hall, heall (originally denoting a roofed space, located centrally, for the communal use of a tribal chief and his people); of Germanic origin and related to German Halle, Dutch hal, also to Norwegian and Swedish hall.

词汇	hall
释义	Definition of hall in English: hall noun hɔːlhɔl 1The room or space just inside the front entrance of a house or flat. （住房或公寓前门内的）门厅，门廊，玄关 Example sentencesExamples It has a reception hall, lounge cum dining room, kitchen, bathroom and bedroom. An enclosed porch with double doors leads to a wide hall with maple flooring. Set on five acres, there is a reception hall, drawing room, anteroom, dining room, kitchen, pantry, four bedrooms and a bathroom. The property is entered through a large porch which leads into a reception hall. Behind the panelled front door is a hall with plenty of character. On both sides of the drop-off area is a large reception hall finished with a rich mix of Italian stone. Entrance to the accommodation is through a wide hall with a shelved cloakroom. Steps lead to the front door, and entrance is through a spacious hall with polished timber floorboards. Three other reception rooms can all be reached from the drawing room or the reception hall. The walls in the reception hall and dining room are covered with glazed Egyptian cotton canvas. Synonyms entrance hall, hallway, entry, entrance, lobby, foyer, vestibule, reception area, atrium, concourse passageway, passage, corridor North American entryway 1.1North American A corridor or area on to which rooms open. 〈北美〉过道，走廊 Example sentencesExamples I walked out of my room and down the hall, opening the door that was two doors down from his. Opening the door, Serenity tiptoed across the hall and opened the door to Haley's room. Halfway down the hall a door opened and Anthony stepped out of his suite into the hallway. Judging form the light, it was about mid afternoon when the door at the end of the hall rattled open and a man came walking up the corridor, heels clicking against concrete. I walked down the hall and opened the door to the room where I saw a lot of other people. Afterwards, she would lie in bed and listen as he crept down the hall and opened the door to my room. I'd heard stories about them, I had to see more, so I walked down the hall and pushed open the door. It is as contemporary as today's headlines and as close as your colleague down the hall. Successfully completed, the students and I could hardly wait to put them on display in the hall. I run down the hall and open the door of the room, and see Rikki, collapsed on the floor. Students could be given the chance, for example, to regulate the tone of voice they use in the halls. Through her closed door, Bri heard her father's bedroom door from across the hall slowly squeak open. Trying to knock down the bedroom door with the skillet, I was able to see another door opening across the hall. She dashed down the hall and threw open the door to her room with a thud. Immediately off the hallway is a kitchen, with a large open plan living and dining area further down the hall. The elevator was empty as she rose to the chief's level, making her way down the hall to the designated meeting room. I turned charismatic on the spot and began shouting around my office and up and down the hall at the University of New Mexico. She tiptoed quietly to her room down the hall and opened the door; she looked around. I turned left down the hall and quietly opened the door to Spane's bedroom. Just as they reached the door, the room across the hall opened up, and an older couple came out. Synonyms entrance hall, hallway, entry, entrance, lobby, foyer, vestibule, reception area, atrium, concourse 2A building or large room used for meetings, concerts, or other events. 会堂，礼堂，大厅 the village hall Example sentencesExamples In pubs and clubs, halls and meeting rooms, Scots dressed in tartan for this, the most traditional night in their social calendar, and to stand while the Haggis was piped in. A large new sports hall has been built to the east of the complex next to existing open-air sports facilities. Immediately he began touring the islands, putting notices up in village halls and organising community meetings. Future phases will include a music and fine arts hall and a major performing arts center. Further round, over the entrance to the dark hall, is a well appointed lecture hall. From here, a long ramp winds up to a triple-height exhibition hall on the first floor. At the southeast corner of the site, a new lecture hall complements the research tower. The exterior design of the new addition was to provide a nearly seamless expansion of the original historic hall. Once held in the bride's family home, the celebration is now often held at a local hall or country club. The show has been packing halls around the country with its combination of top quality characters, high production and sheer entertainment. As well as the temple, the Community Centre has a sports facility, a stage with a 600-seater auditorium and several meeting rooms and halls. More than 45 people turned up for the meeting at the village hall last night to voice their concern at what has become a controversial issue. The pubs and the village hall all have big car parks. One of the many unique aspects of this hall is the potential to adjust the reverberation time. Managed by Seamus Cox from Aghamore, the band travelled the length and breath of the country playing to packed halls and marquees. The penultimate floor is given over to a circular exhibition hall clad in a scaly copper skin. One wall is covered with a few score study models of Disney's performance hall. The theatres and halls around this country that were dead and quiet are now ringing with a whole lot of activity, and that is no small thanks to a whole lot of effort from this Government. It would not necessarily have to be a new building but could be a hall or meeting place the Jewish community could use. On the west side, a trio of exhibition foyers connects with a 350 seat conference hall. Synonyms assembly hall, assembly room, meeting room, large public room, chamber conference hall, lecture room, theatre, concert hall, auditorium, dance hall, church hall, village hall, town hall, guildhall 2.1historical The building in which a guild was housed. （行会的）办公楼，会所 Example sentencesExamples The upper floor was the great hall where guild members met. The medieval hall, in Coffee Yard, off Stonegate, in York, is also putting on special Viking activities for children. Barley Hall was a former medieval hall which was acquired by York Archeological Trust in the 1980s when the site came up for redevelopment. He persuaded the council that the medieval hall must be saved. Beside the Patursson family home is the medieval hall, which is opened to the public during the summer months. 3A large room in a mansion or palace used for receptions and banquets. （官邸或宫殿内接待或宴会用的）大厅 Example sentencesExamples The King left the lavish room for the banquet hall, leaving Shyra and Gaiden to finish preparing. It was the shapeless figure he had met in his dream, the man standing in the shadows of an ancient and dead coronation hall. The great big hall in the manor had been filled with vampires and a few of Emma's closest, more understanding friends. In the rear hall of Ganyu Palace, at the top, is the Rice Flowing Hole. The palace banquet hall was lovely, as always, and the food, delicious. In Budapest, the dance was in a huge hall converted from a palace. He built palaces and banqueting halls on the hill and held meetings of the other provincial kings every three years at which time they made laws and held festivals of music and sport. If that was not enough, nobles of both countries thronged the hall. These timber posts were revealed under the great hall of the present stone manor and the demolished north end solar. He'd walked the various courtyards, banquet halls and audience rooms during the few times when the Inner Circle had been required to meet. The banquet hall had been full of the court dressed in their finery. Finally, they fetched us from the room and brought us down through the kitchen to the banquet hall. The first floor houses a reception room and a banquet hall. The sight filled the Daghda with resolution and he and his three warriors stormed in through the door of the banquet hall. According to these reports, the royal family gathered for an evening meal in the banquet hall of the palace. The rest of the palace, Timon's room and the banquet halls, had collapsed in a head of dust and smoke. 3.1British in names A large country house, especially one with a landed estate. 〈英〉（庄园里的）府第，邸宅 Darlington Hall 达令顿府。 Example sentencesExamples The original features of the hall's reception rooms, previously sub-divided into small offices, can now be seen again. When businessman Bill Reidy ploughed his savings into renovating a derelict 17th Century hall he believed he had created his dream home. 3.2 The principal living room of a medieval house. （中世纪寓所的）主厅，会客厅 Example sentencesExamples In the living hall was a large central hearth and a raised wooden platform along each wall, which would have been used for seating, sleeping and as a working space. Thegns with fewer resources also established churches, often next to their own halls; and increasingly they were made from stone. Like most other farms in Anglo-Saxon England, Linstede consists of a hall and outbuildings, surrounded by fields and pastures. Svensholm is a small Viking homestead, comprising a large hall and a few outbuildings. 4British A university building containing rooms for students to live in. 〈主英〉（大学）宿舍楼 for a brief time they had shared a room in hall Example sentencesExamples In Ibadan 30 Polytechnic students were wounded when police threw tear gas into their halls of residence. I'm staying in a youth hostel which, for the other 11 months of the year when there's no major festival going on is a university hall of residence. It happened on Friday evening as players, many of them accompanied by their parents, were relaxing at the student hall of residence in south Manchester. Students, who will live at the University's halls of residence, will also get the chance to meet current students from the School of Engineering, Design & Technology, as well as academic staff. How it would help the tiny minority of students actually working at the GWH to be physically near to the halls of residence of the students studying English literature defeats me. Some colleges even provide faculty with living quarters in the residence halls. Actually, maybe there was one time, when I threw up on the steps of the University of London post-grad hall of residence in Paddington in my second week in London in 1981. It takes him 35 minutes to drive to his job managing the student the halls of residence at Leeds Metropolitan University. I have to be visible in the campus center and in the residence halls and at sporting events and at all these things that make up the lives of the people here. Residence halls have not usually been considered critical components in community colleges. I suppose at my advanced age I am more inclined to the comfortable surroundings of a posh city centre hotel, rather than a university hall of residence. Letters have also been sent to wardens of university halls of residence warning them to monitor students' health. It was the halls of residence at Scarborough University. I know they are in one of the bin liners I stuffed full of clothes when I was politely asked to vacate my hall of residence at the University of Westingshire. Some colleges are building residence halls with an emphasis on private, single rooms. The quad was abandoned; and the university halls sat, their pillared gates and walls silent and moss-covered in the evening. The Yorkshire Post understands she had signed up for two months' French study with the Alliance Francaise in Lyon and was living in a university hall of residence. 4.1 The room used for meals in a college, university, or school. （学校的）食堂 he dined in hall 他在食堂吃饭。 Example sentencesExamples It was really easy to learn how to hate meals in the dining hall. I could not understand why a meal in the hall should cause this alarm. We reached the meal hall in scant enough time to have our names marked off on the role and find a place on the long, very conference like table and order our meal on the menu. We sat in hall silently when the news was announced, the College is just stunned. Origin Old English hall, heall (originally denoting a roofed space, located centrally, for the communal use of a tribal chief and his people); of Germanic origin and related to German Halle, Dutch hall, also to Norwegian and Swedish hall. Rhymes all, appal (US appall), awl, Bacall, ball, bawl, befall, Bengal, brawl, call, caul, crawl, Donegal, drawl, drywall, enthral (US enthrall), fall, forestall, gall, Galle, Gaul, haul, maul, miaul, miscall, Montreal, Naipaul, Nepal, orle, pall, Paul, pawl, Saul, schorl, scrawl, seawall, Senegal, shawl, small, sprawl, squall, stall, stonewall, tall, thrall, trawl, wall, waul, wherewithal, withal, yawl Definition of hall in US English: hall nounhɔlhôl 1North American An area in a building onto which rooms open; a corridor. Example sentencesExamples Opening the door, Serenity tiptoed across the hall and opened the door to Haley's room. I turned charismatic on the spot and began shouting around my office and up and down the hall at the University of New Mexico. The elevator was empty as she rose to the chief's level, making her way down the hall to the designated meeting room. Through her closed door, Bri heard her father's bedroom door from across the hall slowly squeak open. She dashed down the hall and threw open the door to her room with a thud. Judging form the light, it was about mid afternoon when the door at the end of the hall rattled open and a man came walking up the corridor, heels clicking against concrete. Afterwards, she would lie in bed and listen as he crept down the hall and opened the door to my room. I walked down the hall and opened the door to the room where I saw a lot of other people. I walked out of my room and down the hall, opening the door that was two doors down from his. Trying to knock down the bedroom door with the skillet, I was able to see another door opening across the hall. Students could be given the chance, for example, to regulate the tone of voice they use in the halls. She tiptoed quietly to her room down the hall and opened the door; she looked around. I'd heard stories about them, I had to see more, so I walked down the hall and pushed open the door. I turned left down the hall and quietly opened the door to Spane's bedroom. It is as contemporary as today's headlines and as close as your colleague down the hall. Just as they reached the door, the room across the hall opened up, and an older couple came out. Successfully completed, the students and I could hardly wait to put them on display in the hall. I run down the hall and open the door of the room, and see Rikki, collapsed on the floor. Halfway down the hall a door opened and Anthony stepped out of his suite into the hallway. Immediately off the hallway is a kitchen, with a large open plan living and dining area further down the hall. Synonyms entrance hall, hallway, entry, entrance, lobby, foyer, vestibule, reception area, atrium, concourse 1.1 The room or space just inside the front entrance of a house or apartment. （住房或公寓前门内的）门厅，门廊，玄关 the hall at the front contains a spiral staircase Example sentencesExamples An enclosed porch with double doors leads to a wide hall with maple flooring. Entrance to the accommodation is through a wide hall with a shelved cloakroom. Behind the panelled front door is a hall with plenty of character. Steps lead to the front door, and entrance is through a spacious hall with polished timber floorboards. The walls in the reception hall and dining room are covered with glazed Egyptian cotton canvas. Three other reception rooms can all be reached from the drawing room or the reception hall. The property is entered through a large porch which leads into a reception hall. On both sides of the drop-off area is a large reception hall finished with a rich mix of Italian stone. Set on five acres, there is a reception hall, drawing room, anteroom, dining room, kitchen, pantry, four bedrooms and a bathroom. It has a reception hall, lounge cum dining room, kitchen, bathroom and bedroom. Synonyms entrance hall, hallway, entrance, entry, porch, portico, reception area, atrium, concourse, lobby, vestibule, anteroom, antechamber, outer room, waiting room 2A large room for meetings, concerts, or other events. 会堂，礼堂，大厅 in names Carnegie Hall Example sentencesExamples It would not necessarily have to be a new building but could be a hall or meeting place the Jewish community could use. The exterior design of the new addition was to provide a nearly seamless expansion of the original historic hall. Future phases will include a music and fine arts hall and a major performing arts center. On the west side, a trio of exhibition foyers connects with a 350 seat conference hall. At the southeast corner of the site, a new lecture hall complements the research tower. One of the many unique aspects of this hall is the potential to adjust the reverberation time. Once held in the bride's family home, the celebration is now often held at a local hall or country club. Immediately he began touring the islands, putting notices up in village halls and organising community meetings. The show has been packing halls around the country with its combination of top quality characters, high production and sheer entertainment. Further round, over the entrance to the dark hall, is a well appointed lecture hall. More than 45 people turned up for the meeting at the village hall last night to voice their concern at what has become a controversial issue. A large new sports hall has been built to the east of the complex next to existing open-air sports facilities. In pubs and clubs, halls and meeting rooms, Scots dressed in tartan for this, the most traditional night in their social calendar, and to stand while the Haggis was piped in. As well as the temple, the Community Centre has a sports facility, a stage with a 600-seater auditorium and several meeting rooms and halls. One wall is covered with a few score study models of Disney's performance hall. The theatres and halls around this country that were dead and quiet are now ringing with a whole lot of activity, and that is no small thanks to a whole lot of effort from this Government. The pubs and the village hall all have big car parks. Managed by Seamus Cox from Aghamore, the band travelled the length and breath of the country playing to packed halls and marquees. From here, a long ramp winds up to a triple-height exhibition hall on the first floor. The penultimate floor is given over to a circular exhibition hall clad in a scaly copper skin. Synonyms assembly hall, assembly room, meeting room, large public room, chamber 2.1 A large public room in a mansion or palace used for receptions and banquets. （官邸或宫殿内接待或宴会用的）大厅 Example sentencesExamples The banquet hall had been full of the court dressed in their finery. If that was not enough, nobles of both countries thronged the hall. He built palaces and banqueting halls on the hill and held meetings of the other provincial kings every three years at which time they made laws and held festivals of music and sport. He'd walked the various courtyards, banquet halls and audience rooms during the few times when the Inner Circle had been required to meet. The sight filled the Daghda with resolution and he and his three warriors stormed in through the door of the banquet hall. In Budapest, the dance was in a huge hall converted from a palace. The rest of the palace, Timon's room and the banquet halls, had collapsed in a head of dust and smoke. These timber posts were revealed under the great hall of the present stone manor and the demolished north end solar. It was the shapeless figure he had met in his dream, the man standing in the shadows of an ancient and dead coronation hall. The King left the lavish room for the banquet hall, leaving Shyra and Gaiden to finish preparing. The great big hall in the manor had been filled with vampires and a few of Emma's closest, more understanding friends. According to these reports, the royal family gathered for an evening meal in the banquet hall of the palace. Finally, they fetched us from the room and brought us down through the kitchen to the banquet hall. The first floor houses a reception room and a banquet hall. The palace banquet hall was lovely, as always, and the food, delicious. In the rear hall of Ganyu Palace, at the top, is the Rice Flowing Hole. 2.2British The room used for meals in a college, university, or school. （学校的）食堂 he dined in hall 他在食堂吃饭。 Example sentencesExamples I could not understand why a meal in the hall should cause this alarm. We sat in hall silently when the news was announced, the College is just stunned. It was really easy to learn how to hate meals in the dining hall. We reached the meal hall in scant enough time to have our names marked off on the role and find a place on the long, very conference like table and order our meal on the menu. 2.3 A college or university building containing classrooms, residences, or rooms for other purposes. Example sentencesExamples I have to be visible in the campus center and in the residence halls and at sporting events and at all these things that make up the lives of the people here. Some colleges even provide faculty with living quarters in the residence halls. Residence halls have not usually been considered critical components in community colleges. It happened on Friday evening as players, many of them accompanied by their parents, were relaxing at the student hall of residence in south Manchester. It takes him 35 minutes to drive to his job managing the student the halls of residence at Leeds Metropolitan University. Letters have also been sent to wardens of university halls of residence warning them to monitor students' health. Students, who will live at the University's halls of residence, will also get the chance to meet current students from the School of Engineering, Design & Technology, as well as academic staff. The Yorkshire Post understands she had signed up for two months' French study with the Alliance Francaise in Lyon and was living in a university hall of residence. The quad was abandoned; and the university halls sat, their pillared gates and walls silent and moss-covered in the evening. Some colleges are building residence halls with an emphasis on private, single rooms. I'm staying in a youth hostel which, for the other 11 months of the year when there's no major festival going on is a university hall of residence. How it would help the tiny minority of students actually working at the GWH to be physically near to the halls of residence of the students studying English literature defeats me. I suppose at my advanced age I am more inclined to the comfortable surroundings of a posh city centre hotel, rather than a university hall of residence. It was the halls of residence at Scarborough University. I know they are in one of the bin liners I stuffed full of clothes when I was politely asked to vacate my hall of residence at the University of Westingshire. In Ibadan 30 Polytechnic students were wounded when police threw tear gas into their halls of residence. Actually, maybe there was one time, when I threw up on the steps of the University of London post-grad hall of residence in Paddington in my second week in London in 1981. 2.4 The principal living room of a medieval house. （中世纪寓所的）主厅，会客厅 Example sentencesExamples Like most other farms in Anglo-Saxon England, Linstede consists of a hall and outbuildings, surrounded by fields and pastures. In the living hall was a large central hearth and a raised wooden platform along each wall, which would have been used for seating, sleeping and as a working space. Thegns with fewer resources also established churches, often next to their own halls; and increasingly they were made from stone. Svensholm is a small Viking homestead, comprising a large hall and a few outbuildings. 3British usually in names A large country house, especially one with a landed estate. 〈英〉（庄园里的）府第，邸宅 Darlington Hall 达令顿府。 Example sentencesExamples When businessman Bill Reidy ploughed his savings into renovating a derelict 17th Century hall he believed he had created his dream home. The original features of the hall's reception rooms, previously sub-divided into small offices, can now be seen again. Origin Old English hall, heall (originally denoting a roofed space, located centrally, for the communal use of a tribal chief and his people); of Germanic origin and related to German Halle, Dutch hal, also to Norwegian and Swedish hall.
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