hall

noun10

1. •
   a big room where many people can come together for meetings, shows or parties

   • The hotel had three halls for conferences, and two were in use by the convention.
2. •
   A corridor; a hallway.

   • The drinking fountain was out in the hall.
3. •
   The principal room of a secular medieval building.
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. •
   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.
6. •
   A college's canteen, which is often but not always coterminous with a traditional hall.
7. •
   A meal served and eaten at a college's hall.
8. •
   A place for special professional education, or for conferring professional degrees or licences.
9. •
   (India) A living room.
10. •
    (no longer used) Cleared passageway through a crowd, as for dancing.

    • Then cry, a hall, a hall! Come, father Rosin, with your fiddle now. — 1633

noun1

1. •
   (UK) Hall class, a class of steam locomotive used on the GWR.