[hawl] Pronunciation Key | 1. | a corridor or passageway in a building. |
| 2. | the large entrance room of a house or building; vestibule; lobby. |
| 3. | a large room or building for public gatherings; auditorium: convention hall; concert hall. |
| 4. | a large building for residence, instruction, or other purposes, at a college or university. |
| 5. | a college at a university. |
| 6. | (in English colleges)
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| 7. | British. a mansion or large residence, esp. one on a large estate. |
| 8. | British Informal. music hall. |
| 9. | the chief room in a medieval castle or similar structure, used for eating, sleeping, and entertaining. |
| 10. | the castle, house, or similar structure of a medieval chieftain or noble. |
| 11. | Southeastern U.S.: Older Use. the living room or family room of a house. |
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[hawl] Pronunciation Key | 1. | A·saph
[ey-suhf] Pronunciation Key, 1829–1907, U.S. astronomer: discovered the satellites of Mars. |
| 2. | Charles Francis, 1821–71, U.S. Arctic explorer. |
| 3. | Charles Martin, 1863–1914, U.S. chemist, metallurgist, and manufacturer. |
| 4. | Donald, born 1928, U.S. poet and editor. |
| 5. | Granville Stanley, 1846–1924, U.S. psychologist and educator. |
| 6. | James Norman, 1887–1951, U.S. novelist. |
| 7. | (Marguerite) Rad·clyffe [rad-klif] Pronunciation Key, 1880–1943, English writer. |
| 8. | Prince, 1748–1807, U.S. clergyman and abolitionist, born in Barbados: fought at Bunker Hill. |
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| hall
(hôl) Pronunciation Key
n.
[Middle English halle, large residence, from Old English heall; see kel-1 in Indo-European roots.] Word History: The halls of academe and city hall remind us that what we commonly mean by the word hall, "a passageway, an entrance room," represents a shrunken version of what hall once commonly designated. Going back to the Indo-European root *kel-, "to cover," the Old English word heall, ancestor of our hall, referred to "a large place covered by a roof, whether a royal residence, official building, large private residence, or large room in a residence where the public life of the household is carried on." These senses and related ones are still in use, as attested by compounds such as music hall and study hall. Our common use of the term hall for a vestibule or a corridor harks back to medieval times when the hall was the main public room of a residence and people lived much less privately than now. As private rooms in houses took on the importance they have today, the hall lost its function. Hall also had come to mean any large room, and the vestibule was at one time one of the main sitting rooms in a house, but this sort of room has largely disappeared also, and hall has become the designation for the small vestibule of today as well as for an entrance passage or any passageway. |
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| Hall
(hôl) Pronunciation Key
American explorer who led three expeditions to the Arctic (1860-1862, 1864-1869, and 1871). |
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| Hall, Granville Stanley 1844-1924.
American psychologist who established an experimental psychology laboratory at Johns Hopkins University (1882), founded child psychology, and profoundly influenced educational psychology. |
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| Hall, (Marguerite)
British writer whose novel The Well of Loneliness (1928) was originally banned as obscene in London and the United States. |
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| hall | |
noun | |
| 1. | an interior passage or corridor onto which rooms open; "the elevators were at the end of the hall" [syn: hallway] |
| 2. | a large entrance or reception room or area [syn: anteroom] |
| 3. | a large room for gatherings or entertainment; "lecture hall"; "pool hall" |
| 4. | a college or university building containing living quarters for students [syn: dormitory] |
| 5. | the large room of a manor or castle [syn: manor hall] |
| 6. | English writer whose novel about a lesbian relationship was banned in Britain for many years (1883-1943) |
| 7. | United States child psychologist whose theories of child psychology strongly influenced educational psychology (1844-1924) |
| 8. | United States chemist who developed an economical method of producing aluminum from bauxite (1863-1914) |
| 9. | United States explorer who led three expeditions to the Arctic (1821-1871) |
| 10. | United States astronomer who discovered Phobos and Deimos (the two satellites of Mars) (1829-1907) |
| 11. | a large and imposing house [syn: mansion] |
| 12. | a large building used by a college or university for teaching or research; "halls of learning" |
| 13. | a large building for meetings or entertainment |
Hall (hôl), Granville Stanley. 1844-1924.
American psychologist who established an experimental psychology laboratory at Johns Hopkins University (1882), founded child psychology, and profoundly influenced educational psychology.
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Hall Summit, LA (village, FIPS 32650) Location: 32.17686 N, 93.30495 W
Population (1990): 227 (108 housing units)
Area: 4.3 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)
Zip code(s): 71034
Hall County, TX (county, FIPS 191) Location: 34.52138 N, 100.69256 W
Population (1990): 3905 (2189 housing units)
Area: 2339.1 sq km (land), 2.6 sq km (water)
Hall Park, OK (town, FIPS 32100) Location: 35.24007 N, 97.40680 W
Population (1990): 1090 (359 housing units)
Area: 2.7 sq km (land), 0.1 sq km (water)
Hall County, NE (county, FIPS 79) Location: 40.86586 N, 98.50242 W
Population (1990): 48925 (19528 housing units)
Area: 1415.3 sq km (land), 15.1 sq km (water)
Hall County, GA (county, FIPS 139) Location: 34.31584 N, 83.82089 W
Population (1990): 95428 (38315 housing units)
Area: 1019.6 sq km (land), 92.1 sq km (water)
Wilford Hall U S, TX Zip code(s): 78236
Hall, MT Zip code(s): 59837
Union Hall, VA Zip code(s): 24176
Waverly Hall, GA (town, FIPS 80844) Location: 32.68402 N, 84.73816 W
Population (1990): 769 (275 housing units)
Area: 8.8 sq km (land), 0.1 sq km (water)
Zip code(s): 31831
White Hall, IL (city, FIPS 81256) Location: 39.43744 N, 90.40395 W
Population (1990): 2814 (1230 housing units)
Area: 6.3 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)
Zip code(s): 62092
White Hall, MD Zip code(s): 21161
Rural Hall, NC (town, FIPS 58360) Location: 36.23470 N, 80.29391 W
Population (1990): 1652 (786 housing units)
Area: 2.6 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)
Zip code(s): 27045
Rock Hall, MD (town, FIPS 67400) Location: 39.14047 N, 76.24092 W
Population (1990): 1584 (808 housing units)
Area: 3.4 sq km (land), 0.6 sq km (water)
Zip code(s): 21661
Pleasant Hall, PA Zip code(s): 17246
Pine Hall, NC Zip code(s): 27042
Perry Hall, MD (CDP, FIPS 60975) Location: 39.40660 N, 76.47862 W
Population (1990): 22723 (8745 housing units)
Area: 18.1 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)
Zip code(s): 21128
Centre Hall, PA (borough, FIPS 12376) Location: 40.84442 N, 77.68462 W
Population (1990): 1203 (497 housing units)
Area: 1.6 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)
Zip code(s): 16828
Charlotte Hall, MD (CDP, FIPS 15475) Location: 38.47824 N, 76.78950 W
Population (1990): 1992 (525 housing units)
Area: 20.9 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)
Zip code(s): 20622
Fort Hall, ID (CDP, FIPS 28360) Location: 43.00654 N, 112.44730 W
Population (1990): 2681 (883 housing units)
Area: 106.4 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)
Zip code(s): 83203
Green Hall, KY Zip code(s): 41328
Mill Hall, PA (borough, FIPS 49760) Location: 41.10444 N, 77.49037 W
Population (1990): 1702 (723 housing units)
Area: 2.6 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)
Zip code(s): 17751
Oak Hall, VA Zip code(s): 23416
Park Hall, MD Zip code(s): 20667
Campbell Hall, NY Zip code(s): 10916
White Hall, AL (town, FIPS 81912) Location: 32.30078 N, 86.71454 W
Population (1990): 814 (279 housing units)
Area: 36.6 sq km (land), 0.1 sq km (water)
White Hall, AR (city, FIPS 75170) Location: 34.27557 N, 92.09780 W
Population (1990): 3849 (1391 housing units)
Area: 15.2 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)
Hall
Hall\, n. [OE. halle, hal, AS. heal, heall; akin to D. hal, OS. & OHG. halla, G. halle, Icel. h["o]lt, and prob. from a root meaning, to hide, conceal, cover. See Hell, Helmet.]1. A building or room of considerable size and stateliness, used for public purposes; as, Westminster Hall, in London. 2. (a) 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. Full sooty was her bower and eke her hall. --Chaucer. Hence, as the entrance from outside was directly into the hall: (b) A vestibule, entrance room, etc., in the more elaborated buildings of later times. Hence: (c) Any corridor or passage in a building. 3. A name given to many manor houses because the magistrate's court was held in the hall of his mansion; a chief mansion house. --Cowell. 4. A college in an English university (at Oxford, an unendowed college). 5. The apartment in which English university students dine in common; hence, the dinner itself; as, hall is at six o'clock. 6. Cleared passageway in a crowd; -- formerly an exclamation. [Obs.] "A hall! a hall!" --B. Jonson. Syn: Entry; court; passage. See Vestibule.
Hall
(Gr. aule, Luke 22:55; R.V., "court"), the open court or quadrangle belonging to the high priest's house. In Matt. 26:69 and Mark 14:66 this word is incorrectly rendered "palace" in the Authorized Version, but correctly "court" in the Revised Version. In John 10:1,16 it means a "sheep-fold." In Matt. 27:27 and Mark 15:16 (A.V., "common hall;" R.V., "palace") it refers to the proetorium or residence of the Roman governor at Jerusalem. The "porch" in Matt. 26:71 is the entrance-hall or passage leading into the central court, which is open to the sky.
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