hall

From Middle English halle, from Old English heall (“hall, dwelling, house; palace, temple; law-court”), 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”), Norwegian hall (“hall”), Swedish hall (“hall”), Icelandic höll (“palace”), Latin cella (“room, cell”), Sanskrit शाला (śā́lā, “house, mansion, hall”).

• (UK) IPA^(key): /hɔːl/
• (US) IPA^(key): /hɔl/
• (cot–caught merger) IPA^(key): /hɑl/

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• Rhymes: -ɔːl
• Homophone: haul

hall (plural halls)

1. A corridor; a hallway.

   The drinking fountain was out in the hall.

   • 1913, Joseph C. Lincoln, chapter 13, in Mr. Pratt's Patients:

     We tiptoed into the house, up the stairs and along the hall into the room where the Professor had been spending so much of his time.

2. A meeting room.

   The hotel had three halls for conferences, and two were in use by the convention.

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

   The duke lived in a great hall overlooking the sea.

   (Can we find and add a quotation of Cowell to this entry?)

4. A building providing student accommodation at a university.

   The student government hosted several social events so that students from different halls would intermingle.

5. The principal room of a secular medieval building.
6. (obsolete) Cleared passageway through a crowd, as for dancing.
   • (Can we date this quote?) Ben Jonson, Tale of a Tub

     Then cry, a hall, a hall! Come, father Rosin, with your fiddle now.

7. A place for special professional education, or for conferring professional degrees or licences.

   a Divinity Hall; Apothecaries' Hall

8. (India) A living room.

From Proto-Indo-European *(s)kel- (compare English shallow, Middle High German hel (“tired, weak”), Ancient Greek σκέλλω (skéllō, “to dry up”), σκληρός (sklērós, “hard, harsh”)).[1]

• IPA^(key): /haɫ/

hall m (indefinite plural halle, definite singular halli, definite plural hallet)

1. trouble

Borrowed from English hall. Doublet of hal.

• IPA^(key): [hɒːl]

hall c (singular definite hallen, plural indefinite haller)

1. hall (a corridor or a hallway)

From Proto-Finnic *halla, from pre-Finnic *šalna, from Proto-Balto-Slavic [Term?]. Compare Latvian salna, Lithuanian šalna.

• IPA^(key): /ˈhɑlː/

hall (genitive halla, partitive halla)

1. frost

From Proto-Finnic *halli (compare Finnish halli), from Balto-Slavic. Compare Latvian salnis, Lithuanian šalnis (“off-white, roan”)

• IPA^(key): /ˈhɑlʲː/

hall (genitive halli, partitive halli)

1. grey (color)

• hallitama

• IPA^(key): /ˈhɑlʲː/

hall (genitive halli, partitive halli)

1. hall (large room or building)

Borrowed from English hall.

• ^{(aspirated h)} IPA^(key): /ol/

hall m (plural halls)

1. hall

• “hall” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

• IPA^(key): /hal/
• Rhymes: -al

hall

1. Imperative singular of hallen.
2. (colloquial) First-person singular present of hallen.

• IPA^(key): [ˈhɒlː]

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From the coincidence[1] of the Proto-Uralic *kontale- (compare Old Hungarian hadl (“hear”), Mansi хӯнтли (χūntli, χūntl-), Finnish kuunnella) and Proto-Uralic *kule- (compare Mansi хӯлуӈкве (χūluŋkwe) and Finnish kuulla).

hall

1. (intransitive) to hear (to perceive sounds through the ear)
2. (transitive) to hear (to perceive with the ear)

   Hallottam egy hangot a szobából. ― I heard a sound from the room.

Borrowed from German Halle.[2]

hall (plural hallok)

1. lounge

Akin to Finnish halla.

hall

1. frost

From Old Norse hǫll.

hall m (definite singular hallen, indefinite plural haller, definite plural hallene)

1. a hall (a building or very large room)

• idrettshall
• svømmehall

• “hall” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

• IPA^(key): /hɑlː/

From Old Norse hǫll. Akin to English hall.

hall m (definite singular hallen, indefinite plural hallar, definite plural hallane)
or
hall f (definite singular halla, indefinite plural haller, definite plural hallene)

1. a hall (a building or very large room)

From Old Norse hallr.

hall n (definite singular hallet, indefinite plural hall, definite plural halla)

1. a slope, sloping terrain

• bakhall
• grashall

• “hall” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Borrowed from English hall.

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈʁɔw/

hall m (plural halls)

1. (architecture) lobby; entrance hall (room in a building used for entry from the outside)

• hall da fama

hall m (plural halls)

1. hall, lobby, lounge

From Old Norse hǫll, from Proto-Germanic *hallō, from Proto-Indo-European *ḱel-. Compare English hall. Related to Latin cella and English cellar.[1]

• IPA^(key): /hal/

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hall c

1. a hallway
2. a lounge
3. a corridor
4. an entryway
5. short for any of the words:

   • simhall
   • ishall
   • sporthall
   • verkstadshall
   • mässhall

From Old Norse hallr. Cognate with Icelandic hallur.

hall

1. sloping, inclined, oblique

From Old Norse hǫll, from Proto-Germanic *hallō

hall f

1. area where no particularly large forest exist