Hall Hɔːl Building Front Room Noun Brother Standing

• her brother was standing in the front hall.
• she ran into the hall and up the stairs.
• i headed for scott's office down the hall.
• the room across the hall

hall

1. a space or passage inside the entrance or front door of a building
• SEE ALSO entrance hall
  https://www.oxfordlearnersdictionaries.com/definition/english/entrance-hall
• Her brother was standing in the front hall.
• She ran into the hall and up the stairs.
2. a passage in a building with rooms down either side
• SYNONYM corridor
  https://www.oxfordlearnersdictionaries.com/definition/english/corridor
• I headed for Scott's office down the hall.
• the room across the hall
3. a building or large room for public meetings, meals, concerts, etc.
• SEE ALSO city hall
  https://www.oxfordlearnersdictionaries.com/definition/english/city-hall_1
• a concert/sports hall
• a banqueting/conference hall
• an exhibition hall
• There are three dining halls on campus.
• the Royal Albert Hall
• The next meeting is in the community hall on Tuesday.
• A jumble sale will be held in the village hall on Saturday.

Extra Examples

• More than 200 members of the public packed the main hall at the community centre.
• Our voices echoed round the huge bare hall.
• The strains of the national anthem filled the hall.
• at dinner in the mess hall
• It's important for a concert hall to have good acoustics.
• Our stand is located in the main exhibition hall.
4. a building for university or college students to live in
• She's living in hall(s).
5. a large country house
• Haddon Hall
• Berrington Hall was built in the late 18th century.

Word 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.