Hall
A building or room of considerable size and stateliness, used for public purposes; as, Westminster Hall, in London.
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.
A vestibule, entrance room, etc., in the more elaborated buildings of later times.
Any corridor or passage in a building.
A name given to many manor houses because the magistrate's court was held in the hall of his mansion; a chief mansion house.
A college in an English university (at Oxford, an unendowed college).
The apartment in which English university students dine in common; hence, the dinner itself; as, hall is at six o'clock.
Cleared passageway in a crowd; -- formerly an exclamation.
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Hall Quotations
A school without football is in danger of deteriorating into a medieval study hall.
Vince Lombardi
I think I'm telling the truth. I sat by Ray Perkins at the Hall of Fame dinner in New York, and at that time he didn't know he was our coach and I didn't either.
Bear Bryant
His lordship may compel us to be equal upstairs, but there will never be equality in the servants hall.
James M. Barrie
Prayers were held in Assembly Hall. We all perched in rows on wooden benches while teachers sat up on the platform in armchairs, facing us.
Roald Dahl
The sooner I get into the Hall of Fame the better.
Dave Winfield
I sent my flowers across the hall to Mrs Nixon but her husband remembered what a Democrat I am and sent them back.
Bette Davis
It's very easy to be cynical about the hall of fame. But on the other hand, it's really a beautiful thing for someone like me. I dedicated my entire life to this music.
Tom Petty
As a player, it says everything about you if you made the Hall of Fame. But, then again, boy... there's something about winning a Super Bowl.
Terry Bradshaw
Studios are passe for me. I'd rather play in a garage, in a truck, or a rehearsal hall, a club, or a basement.
Neil Young
My room for books and study or for sitting and thinking about nothing in particular to see what would happen was at the end of a hall.
Carl Sandburg
Hall Translations
hall in Dutch is hal
hall in French is salle, hall, traversant, vestibule
hall in German is Saal, Halle, Flur, Flur, Halle
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