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

1. noun. A building or room of considerable size and stateliness, used for public purposes; as, Westminster Hall, in London.
2. noun. 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.
3. noun. A vestibule, entrance room, etc., in the more elaborated buildings of later times.
4. noun. Any corridor or passage in a building.
5. noun. A name given to many manor houses because the magistrate's court was held in the hall of his mansion; a chief mansion house.
6. noun. A college in an English university (at Oxford, an unendowed college).
7. noun. The apartment in which English university students dine in common; hence, the dinner itself; as, hall is at six o'clock.
8. noun. Cleared passageway in a crowd; -- formerly an exclamation.
9. noun. a large entrance or reception room or area

   Synonyms: antechamber, anteroom, foyer, lobby, vestibule

10. noun. a college or university building containing living quarters for students

    Synonyms: dorm, dormitory

11. noun. a large building for meetings or entertainment
12. noun. a large room for gatherings or entertainment

    "lecture hall"

    "pool hall"

13. noun. a large building used by a college or university for teaching or research

    "halls of learning"

14. noun. an interior passage or corridor onto which rooms open

    "the elevators were at the end of the hall"

    Synonyms: hallway

15. noun. the large room of a manor or castle
16. noun. a large and imposing house

    Synonyms: manse, mansion, residence

17. noun. United States astronomer who discovered Phobos and Deimos (the two satellites of Mars) (1829-1907)
18. noun. United States explorer who led three expeditions to the Arctic (1821-1871)
19. noun. United States chemist who developed an economical method of producing aluminum from bauxite (1863-1914)
20. noun. United States child psychologist whose theories of child psychology strongly influenced educational psychology (1844-1924)
21. noun. English writer whose novel about a lesbian relationship was banned in Britain for many years (1883-1943)

Synonyms

antechamber, anteroom, foyer, lobby, vestibule, dorm, dormitory, hallway, manse, mansion, residence

Common word forms

halls, hallal, halling

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