1. A large room for gatherings, receiving guests, or entertainment
   "lecture hall"; "pool hall"
    
2. An interior passage or corridor onto which rooms open
   "the elevators were at the end of the hall";
   - hallway
    
3. A small entrance, reception room, or waiting area
   "Guests waited in the entrance hall before being called into the main office";
   - anteroom, antechamber, entrance hall, foyer, lobby, vestibule
    
4. A large building for meetings or entertainment
   "The concert was held in the city hall"
    
5. A large building used by a college or university for teaching or research
   "halls of learning"
    
6. A college or university building containing living quarters for students
   "Freshmen typically live in halls during their first year"; "The freshman was excited to move into her new room in the residence hall";
   - dormitory, dorm [informal], residence hall, student residence
    
7. The large room of a manor or castle
   "Medieval feasts were often held in the spacious manor hall";
   - manor hall
    
8. A large and imposing house
   "The Victorian hall stood majestically at the end of the drive";
   - mansion, mansion house, manse [archaic], residence

1. United States astronomer who discovered Phobos and Deimos (the two satellites of Mars) (1829-1907)
   - Asaph Hall
    
2. United States explorer who led three expeditions to the Arctic (1821-1871)
   - Charles Francis Hall
    
3. United States chemist who developed an economical method of producing aluminium from bauxite (1863-1914)
   - Charles Martin Hall
    
4. United States child psychologist whose theories of child psychology strongly influenced educational psychology (1844-1924)
   - G. Stanley Hall, Granville Stanley Hall
    
5. English writer whose novel about a lesbian relationship was banned in Britain for many years (1883-1943)
   - Radclyffe Hall, Marguerite Radclyffe Hall

Sounds like: hailing, halhall

Derived forms: halls, Halls

Type of: adventurer, astronomer, author, building, chemist, corridor, edifice, explorer, house, living quarters, psychologist, quarters, room, stargazer [informal], uranologist, writer

Part of: building, edifice

Encyclopedia: Hall, Montana