hallnoun [ C ]
uk/hɔːl/us/hɑːl/hall noun [ C ] (ENTRANCE)
A2 also hallway the room just inside the main entrance of a house, apartment, or other building that leads to other rooms and usually to the stairs:
I left my bags in the hall.
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- The kids always clutter the hall up with school bags and coats and stuff.
- She ran excitedly down the hall to greet her cousins.
- We're having a new carpet laid in the hall next week.
- A portrait of the earl takes pride of place in the entrance hall.
- She sashayed down the stairs and into the hall.
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Parts of buildings: passages & entrance areas
- arcade
- archway
- concourse
- corridor
- desk
- entryway
- foyer
- gangway!
- gateway
- hallway
- lobby
- marquee
- passage
- patio
- porch
- portico
- reception
- terrace
- vestibule
hall noun [ C ] (BUILDING)
A2 a building or large room used for events involving a lot of people:
the Royal Albert Hall
a concert hall
UK the school sports hall
UK I'm playing in a concert at the village/church hall.
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- The people at the back of the hall started jeering at the speaker.
- There's a big sports hall for tennis and badminton and such like.
- The presentation of prizes and certificates will take place in the main hall.
- The children funnelled along the corridor into the school hall.
- The new concert hall seats 1500 people.
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Parts of buildings: rooms
- antechamber
- anteroom
- atelier
- atrium
- attic
- ballroom
- conservatory
- en suite
- eyrie
- family room
- form room
- front room
- gymnasium
- reading room
- reception room
- refectory
- room
- rumpus room
- snug
- vault
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