hall
hall.
1. Main room of a medieval house or the large, communal room of a college, etc., often an open-hall, open to the roof, and sometimes with an open hearth.
2. Large room or building for the transaction of public business, the holding of courts of justice, or any public assembly, meeting, or entertainment (e.g. music-hall).
3. Building for a guild or fraternity, such as a London Livery-Company Hall (e.g. Hall of The Fishmongers' Company), or for a municipal body (e.g. city- or town-hall).
4. Principal messuage of a manor, i.e. the residence of a territorial proprietor.
5. University building set aside for the residence or instruction of students.
6. Common-room in a mansion in which servants dined.
7. Any large roofed volume.
8. Entrance-room (or -hall).
1. Main room of a medieval house or the large, communal room of a college, etc., often an open-hall, open to the roof, and sometimes with an open hearth.
2. Large room or building for the transaction of public business, the holding of courts of justice, or any public assembly, meeting, or entertainment (e.g. music-hall).
3. Building for a guild or fraternity, such as a London Livery-Company Hall (e.g. Hall of The Fishmongers' Company), or for a municipal body (e.g. city- or town-hall).
4. Principal messuage of a manor, i.e. the residence of a territorial proprietor.
5. University building set aside for the residence or instruction of students.
6. Common-room in a mansion in which servants dined.
7. Any large roofed volume.
8. Entrance-room (or -hall).
Bibliography
Alcock,, Barley,, Dixon,, & and Meeson (1996);
Gwilt (1903);
W. Papworth (1852);
M. Thompson (1995)
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