Dictionary Entry
hall
hall is a 4-letter English word with 21 senses as noun in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: A building or room of considerable size and stateliness, used for public purposes; as, Westminster Hall, in London. Face value is 7 in Scrabble and 8 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
4 letters · Scrabble 7 · Words With Friends 8 · 21 senses
Definitions
- 1noun
A building or room of considerable size and stateliness, used for public purposes; as, Westminster Hall, in London.
- 2noun
The chief room in a castle or manor house, and in early times the only public room, serving as the place of gathering for the lord's family with the retainers and servants, also for cooking and eating. It was often contrasted with the bower, which was the private or sleeping apartment.
- 3noun
A vestibule, entrance room, etc., in the more elaborated buildings of later times.
- 4noun
Any corridor or passage in a building.
- 5noun
A name given to many manor houses because the magistrate's court was held in the hall of his mansion; a chief mansion house.
- 6noun
A college in an English university (at Oxford, an unendowed college).
- 7noun
The apartment in which English university students dine in common; hence, the dinner itself; as, hall is at six o'clock.
- 8noun
Cleared passageway in a crowd; -- formerly an exclamation.
- 9noun
a large entrance or reception room or area
- 10noun
a college or university building containing living quarters for students
- 11noun
a large building for meetings or entertainment
- 12noun
a large room for gatherings or entertainment
"lecture hall"
"pool hall"
- 13noun
a large building used by a college or university for teaching or research
"halls of learning"
- 14noun
an interior passage or corridor onto which rooms open
"the elevators were at the end of the hall"
Synonyms
- 15noun
the large room of a manor or castle
- 16noun
a large and imposing house
- 17noun
United States astronomer who discovered Phobos and Deimos (the two satellites of Mars) (1829-1907)
- 18noun
United States explorer who led three expeditions to the Arctic (1821-1871)
- 19noun
United States chemist who developed an economical method of producing aluminum from bauxite (1863-1914)
- 20noun
United States child psychologist whose theories of child psychology strongly influenced educational psychology (1844-1924)
- 21noun
English writer whose novel about a lesbian relationship was banned in Britain for many years (1883-1943)
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