halln.1
/hɔːl/, U.S. /hɔl/ΘΚΠ
society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > dwelling place or abode > a dwelling > dwelling of king or ruler > [noun]
hall971
fleta1000
saleOE
courta1175
palacec1300
praetoryc1384
praetorium1536
serail1585
seraglio1589
serai1617
sirkar1619
alcazar1623
alkedavy1631
palaisc1660
Residenz1824
istana1839
arch-house1876
OE Beowulf 89 He dogora gehwam dream gehyrde hludne in healle.
a1175 Cott. Hom. 231 Þat se hlaford into þar halle come.
c1275 (?a1200) Laȝamon Brut (Calig.) (1978) l. 13991 Þa postes..þa heolden up þa halle.
1297 R. Gloucester's Chron. (1724) 540 He wende & lai withoute toun, atte kinges halle.
1340 R. Rolle Pricke of Conscience 8098 Loverd! better es a day lastand In þi halles þan a thowsand.
c1400 Mandeville's Trav. (Roxb.) v. 15 Þ ai make pittes in þe erthe all aboute þe hall.
1447 O. Bokenham Lyvys Seyntys (1835) 32 The virgyne, wych stant..In the hey weye, venus halle by.
a1513 W. Dunbar Poems (1998) I. 85 Tryvmphale hall, hie trone regall Of Godis celsitud.
1606 P. Holland tr. Suetonius Hist. Twelve Caesars 211 Being once Emperour did set up also in his Haule (or Court yard) the Lineall processe and race of his house.
2.
a. The large public room in a mansion, palace, etc., used for receptions, banquets, etc., which till nearly 1600 greatly surpassed in size and importance the private rooms or ‘bowers’ (see bower n.1 2); a large or stately room in a house. in hall, was often rhetorically contrasted with in the field. servants' hall: the common room in a mansion or large house in which the servants dine.
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society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > a building > parts of building > room > types of room generally > [noun] > large or principal room
hallc1200
sala1611
aula1626
sale1632
salle1765
ha'1808
saal1855
megaron1877
society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > a building > parts of building > room > room by type of use > [noun] > living room > in great house
hallc1200
c1200 Trin. Coll. Hom. 139 He..ches þere crundel to halle · and eorðhole to bure.
a1225 Leg. Kath. 1470 In halle & i bure.
c1325 Poem Times Edw. II 252 in Pol. Songs (Camden) 334 And nu ben theih liouns in halle, and hares in the feld.
14.. in T. Wright & R. P. Wülcker Anglo-Saxon & Old Eng. Vocab. (1884) I. 723/7 Hoc atrium, a hawlle.
a1475 Bk. Curtasye (Sloane 1986) l. 388 in Babees Bk. (2002) i. 311 In halle make fyre at yche a mele.
a1513 W. Dunbar Poems (1998) I. 258 The honorable vse, is all ago, In hall and bour, in burgh and plane.
c1515 Ld. Berners tr. Bk. Duke Huon of Burdeux (1882–7) cxi. 383 The ryche chambers that were on the syde of the hall.
1530 J. Palsgrave Lesclarcissement 228/2 Halle in a house, salle.
1592 A. Day 2nd Pt. Eng. Secretorie sig. M3v, in Eng. Secretorie (rev. ed.) When by a part we vnderstand the whole, as to say..a Hall for a house.
1662 J. Davies tr. A. Olearius Voy. & Trav. Ambassadors 16 The Hall for Audience is on the right hand of the Court.
1717 tr. A. F. Frézier Voy. South-Sea 261 The first Room is a large Hall, about 19 Foot Broad, and between 30 and 40 in Length.
1728 E. Chambers Cycl. (at cited word) The hall..in the Houses of Ministers of State, public Magistrates, &c. is that wherein they dispatch Business, and give Audience.
1834 T. Wentworth West India Sketch Bk. I. 152 One [compartment] occupying nearly half the area, which was designated ‘the hall’, and appropriated to the ordinary daily purposes of drawing and dining-room.
1841 C. Dickens Barnaby Rudge xvi. 22 To quarrel in the servants' hall while waiting for their masters and mistresses.
1861 J. H. Parker Introd. Study Gothic Archit. (ed. 2) iii. 76 Part of the great Norman hall remains, now converted into the servants' hall.
b. transferred. The company assembled in a hall.
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1412–20 J. Lydgate tr. Hist. Troy i. v At her comynge gladdeth all the halle.
3. The residence of a territorial proprietor, a baronial or squire's ‘hall’.In early use, not separable from 1.
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society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > dwelling place or abode > a dwelling > a house > types of house > [noun] > manor house
hallc1000
boroughc1175
court1297
manorc1300
palacec1300
mansion1375
placea1387
manor-place1392
chemis1408
head-place1463
mansion place1473
manse1490
court-hall1552
manery1563
manor house1575
seat1607
country seat1615
great house1623
mansion house1651
country house1664
manor-seata1667
place-house1675
mansion-seat1697
hall-house1702
big house1753
ha'-house1814
manoir1830
manor hall1840
yashiki1863
seigneury1895
stately home1934
stately2009
c1000 West Saxon Gospels: Matt. (Corpus Cambr.) ix. 23 Se hælend com in-to þas ealdres halle.
14.. in T. Wright & R. P. Wülcker Anglo-Saxon & Old Eng. Vocab. (1884) I. 625/19 Quactum, halle, howse.
c1540 (?a1400) Destr. Troy 8683 Within houses & hallis hard was þere chere.
a1616 W. Shakespeare Taming of Shrew (1623) ii. i. 188 But Kate, the prettiest Kate in Christendome, Kate of Kate-hall . View more context for this quotation
1807 G. Crabbe Parish Reg. iii, in Poems 104 In Town, she dwelt;—forsaken stood the Hall.
1832 T. B. Macaulay Armada 60 The warlike errand.. roused in many an ancient hall the gallant squires of Kent.
1864 Ld. Tennyson Aylmer's Field in Enoch Arden, etc. 53 Aylmer follow'd Aylmer at the Hall And Averill Averill at the Rectory Thrice over; so that Rectory and Hall, Bound in an immemorial intimacy, Were open to each other.
4. A term applied, esp. in the English universities, to a building or buildings set apart for the residence or instruction of students, and, by transference, to the body of students occupying it.
a. Originally applied at Oxford and Cambridge to all residences of students, including the Colleges when these came to be founded. Now historical, archaic, or poetic for ‘academic buildings’.At Cambridge this use survived till modern times, when some of the smaller colleges, though corporations, were still called halls; the older designation survives, for distinction's sake, in the name of Trinity Hall.
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society > education > place of education > educational buildings > [noun] > college or university buildings
collegec1405
hallc1405
schoolc1454
schoolsc1557
burse1577
1379 Patent Roll Rich. II i. 32 (New Coll. Oxf. Oxon.) Custos et scholares collegii, domus, sive aulæ prædicti.]
c1405 (c1390) G. Chaucer Reeve's Tale (Hengwrt) (2003) l. 83 Poure scolers two That dwelten in this halle of which I seye.
1474 in A. Wood Surv. Antiq. City of Oxf. (1889) I. 126 Tenementum magistri et scholarium Collegii vulgariter nuncupati University Halle.
?15.. in A. Wood Surv. Antiq. City of Oxf. (1889) I. 580 Gardinum quod pertinet ad Collegium de Queen Hall.
1847 Ld. Tennyson Princess Prol. 7 Pretty were the sight If our old halls could change their sex, and flaunt With prudes for proctors, dowagers for deans, And sweet girl-graduates in their golden hair.
1886 tr. Statutes of Trinity Hall in R. Willis & J. W. Clark Archit. Hist. Univ. Cambr. (1886) Introd. 17 The house [L. domus] which the aforesaid college shall inhabit, shall be named the Hall [L. aula] of the Holy Trinity of Norwich.
b. After the institution of the colleges, applied specifically to those buildings and societies which, unlike the colleges, were governed by a head only (and not by head and fellows), and whose property was held in trust for them, they not being bodies corporate. (Cf. college n. 4)The ‘Halls’ were originally very numerous, but in Queen Elizabeth's time only eight remained in Oxford, and they are now almost extinct.
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society > education > educational administration > university administration > [noun] > hall
hall1535
1535–6 Act 27 Hen. VIII c. 42 §1 Provostshippes, Maister~shippes, Halles, Hostelles.
1569 R. Grafton Chron. II. 950 In Oxford..he founded also Magdaleyn Hall.
1611 J. Florio Queen Anna's New World of Words Allóggio..also a skollers house, as the halls in Oxford, that haue no lands, but all liue of themselues.
1683 A. Wood Life & Times (1894) III. 47 A Master of every College and Hall to have procuratoriall power during the duke of York's being at Oxon.
1785 W. Cowper Task ii. 699 In colleges and halls, in ancient days, When learning, virtue, piety and truth Were precious.
1877 Statutes of Univ. Oxf. Commissioners (1882) 215 A Statute for the Union of Balliol College and New Inn Hall.
1895–6 Kelly's Oxford Directory 91/2 The halls are governed by the ‘Statuta Aulularia’, a code of regulations originally framed by the University and since amended by Convocation.
1895–6 Kelly's Oxford Directory 92/2 The four Dyke Scholarships formerly belonging to this hall [St. Mary] have now been suppressed.
c. In recent times applied to buildings in University towns, established, whether by the Universities or not, for the use of students in the higher learning, sometimes enjoying the privileges of the University and sometimes not: e.g. at Oxford, private halls for the residence of undergraduate members of the University, under the charge of a member of Convocation; theological halls (e.g. Wycliffe Hall), halls for women students (e.g. Somerville Hall, Lady Margaret Hall).For the last two classes the name ‘college’ has also been assumed: see college n. 4e. Divinity Hall, the name applied to the theological department of the Scottish Universities, and to the theological colleges of the Nonconformist churches.
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society > education > place of education > educational buildings > [noun] > college or university buildings > students' residence
hospital1536
hostel1536
pensionary1583
inn1655
hotel1748
residence1828
bursa1831
residence hall1857
dormitory1865
hall1879
hospice1895
hospitium1895
1879 Minutes Comm. Assoc. Educ. Women 21 June The Scholarship to be called the Mary Somerville Scholarship tenable at Somerville Hall for 3 years.
1879 Times 23 June Other exhibitions and scholarships have been and will be awarded by the Lady Margaret and Somerville Halls.
1882 Addenda to Statutes (Oxford) 879 §1 Of the granting of Licenses to open private Halls.
1882 Addenda to Statutes (Oxford) 879 §6 Of the Conditions upon which a Private Hall may become a Public Hall of the University.
1895–6 Kelly's Oxford Directory 95/1 To open a suitable building as a private hall for the reception and tuition of matriculated students, who shall be admissable to degrees..the proprietor of such hall is to bear the title of ‘Licensed Master’.
d. In American colleges: A room or building appropriated to the meetings of a literary or other society; also the society itself.
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1888 J. A. Porter in Cent. Mag. Sept. 751 The twin literary societies, or ‘halls’, generally secret, and always intense in mutual rivalry, which have been institutions at every leading college in the land.
1888 J. A. Porter in Cent. Mag. Sept. 751 Oliver Ellsworth, afterward Chief-Justice..founded Clio Hall at Princeton, and a few years later, in 1769, Whig Hall arose at the same college.
5.
a. In English colleges, etc.: The large room in which the members and students dine in common.
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society > education > place of education > educational buildings > [noun] > college or university buildings > dining room
commons1572
hall1577
the world > food and drink > food > consumption of food or drink > eating > eating place > [noun] > dining-room > refectory
fraterc1290
refectoryc1451
refrectore?a1475
frater-house1546
fratrya1552
hall1577
refectuary1611
refectoire1667
society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > a building > parts of building > room > room by type of use > [noun] > dining room > refectory
fraterc1290
refectoryc1451
refrectore?a1475
frater-house1546
fratrya1552
commons1572
hall1577
refectuary1611
refectoire1667
1577 in R. Willis & J. W. Clark Archit. Hist. Univ. Cambr. (1886) III. 371 The Comedie played publiklie in the hawlle at Christmas.
1683 A. Wood Life 19 May They went into the hall [of Queen's Coll. Oxford], and viewed the pictures of King Charles I and his queen.
1853 ‘C. Bede’ Adventures Mr. Verdant Green vi. 45 That he might make his first appearance in Hall with proper éclat.
1877 R. D. Blackmore Cripps (1895) xix. 111 Will you dine in hall with me?
1898 N.E.D. at Hall Mod. Concert in Balliol Hall.
b. transferred. The dinner in a college hall.
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the world > food and drink > food > meal > [noun] > communal or public meal
ordinar1553
public table1561
ordinary1589
penny-commons1615
fellowshipa1650
ordinary suppera1661
house dinner1818
table d'hôte1821
grubbery1831
syssitia1835
mess1840
hall1861
potluck1867
syssition1874
1861 T. Hughes Tom Brown at Oxf. I. i. 12 You ought to dine in hall perhaps four days a week. Hall is at five o'clock.
a1890 R. F. Burton in Life (1893) I. 74 The time for ‘Hall’, that is to say for college dinner, was five p.m.
6. A house or building belonging to a guild or fraternity of merchants or tradesmen.At these places the business of the respective guilds was transacted; and in some instances they served as the market-houses for the sale of the goods of the associated members; as Apothecaries' Hall, Haberdashers' Hall, Merchant Tailors' Hall, Saddlers' Hall, etc. etc. in London. See also cloth-hall n. at cloth n. Compounds 3, common hall n., guildhall n., etc.
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society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > a building > public building > [noun] > other spec.
hallc1302
prytaneum1577
praetorium?1586
Roman bath1680
Colosseum1809
kursaal1850
scuola1851
culture centre1890
cultural centre1891
club1896
c1302 Pol. Songs (1839) 188 The webbes ant the fullaris..makeden huere consail in huere commune halle.
c1405 (c1387–95) G. Chaucer Canterbury Tales Prol. (Hengwrt) (2003) l. 372 To sitten in a yeldehalle on a deys.
1548 Hall's Vnion: Henry VI f. clxx The Mayre..ordeyned, that all Wardeins of misteries, should assemble their felowship in their particular hawles.
1632 P. Massinger & N. Field Fatall Dowry v. sig. K3 And therefore vse a conscience, though it be Forbidden in our hall towards other men.
1654 R. Whitlock Ζωοτομία 233 Examine the truth of it at Stationers Hall.
1708 E. Hatton New View London II. 593 An Alphabetical Account of Companies and their Halls.
1869 T. Arundell Hist. Reminisc. London 187 The custom of possessing magnificent halls had not..become general.
7. † b. the Hall, Westminster Hall, formerly the seat of the High Court of Justice in England; hence, the administration of justice. Obsolete.† c. A formal assembly held by the sovereign, or by the mayor or principal municipal officer of a town; usually in to keep hall, call a hall. Obsolete (see also common hall n.)
a. A large room or building for the transaction of public business, the holding of courts of justice, or any public assemblies, meetings, or entertainments. (See also music hall n., town hall n., etc.)
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society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > a building > public building > [noun]
hall1297
school?a1425
common house1537
basilica1541
public house1560
public building1561
state house1593
prytaneum1673
house of call1699
basilic1728
zayat1823
civic centre1867
jong1904
1297 R. Gloucester's Chron. (1724) 390 The tour he made of Londone, Wyllam þys proute kyng, And muche halle of Londone, þat so muche was þoru all thyng.
c1384 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Douce 369(2)) (1850) Matt. xxvii. 27 Thanne kniȝtis of the president takynge Jhesu in the mote halle.
1569 R. Grafton Chron. II. 237 The king and the Erle went hand in hand to the great Hall of the Towne.
1732 T. Lediard tr. J. Terrasson Life Sethos II. ix. 334 They desir'd the ambassadors to go out of the hall.
1802 M. Cutler Jrnl. 20 Feb. in W. P. Cutler & J. P. Cutler Life, Jrnls. & Corr. M. Cutler (1888) II. 79 The House..adjourned..for the purpose of giving opportunity to workmen to fix some ventilators, which were greatly wanted in the Hall.
1826 H. N. Coleridge Six Months W. Indies 193 The Court House..contains a hall on the ground floor for the Assembly.
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society > law > administration of justice > judicial body, assembly, or court > place where court is held > [noun] > courthouse > specifically in England
the Hall1548
society > law > administration of justice > [noun]
jurisdictiona1300
justicec1325
justificationa1419
justicinga1460
law?a1513
judicature1530
judicatorya1583
justice business1649
justicement1685
the Hall1738
justice system1837
1548 Hall's Vnion: Henry VI f. clxxxvv To Westmynster, and there set in the hawle, with the scepter royall in his hand.
1623 W. Shakespeare & J. Fletcher Henry VIII ii. i. 2 Whether away so fast?.. Eu'n to the Hall, to heare what shall become Of the great Duke of Buckingham.
1738 A. Pope One Thousand Seven Hundred & Thirty Eight Dialogue II 14 To Virtue's Work provoke the tardy Hall.
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society > leisure > social event > social gathering > [noun] > held by sovereign or mayor
hall1551
1551–2 King Edward VI Jrnl. 7 Jan. in Lit. Rem. (Roxb.) II. 388 I went to Detford to dine there, and brake up the halle.
1569 R. Grafton Chron. II. 1317 [Christmas] kept at Greenewiche with open houshold, and franke resorte to the Court, (which is called keping of the Hall).
c1665 L. Hutchinson Mem. Col. Hutchinson (1973) 87 Whereupon a Hall was call'd, and the danger of the place declar'd to the whole Towne.
1684 London Gaz. No. 1956/4 The next day the Mayor called a Hall, and..swore all the Aldermen.
d. Also in plural (occasionally in singular), abbreviation of music-hall.
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society > leisure > the arts > performance arts > the theatre or the stage > a theatre > [noun] > music hall
variety theatre?1577
music hall1749
hall1862
saloon1864
1862 A. J. Munby Diary 29 Mar. in D. Hudson Munby (1972) 119 Socially speaking, the audience were a good deal higher than those I have seen in similar Halls at Islington & elsewhere.
1867 C. Dickens Let. 16 Dec. (1999) XI. 513 I have to go to the hall to try an enlarged background.
1895 A. Chevalier & B. Daly A. Chevalier 115 He was one of the few actors of any prominence who had migrated to the halls.
1898 J. D. Brayshaw Slum Silhouettes 29 He've tried every small 'all in town, even the pubs wot gits up ‘smokers’.
1905 Morton & Newton (title) Sixty years' stage service, being a record of the life of Charles Morton, ‘the Father of the Halls’.
1923 N. Coward Coll. Sketches & Lyrics (1931) 75 Doing a turn of me own on the halls—very trying work—and so cosmopolitan.
1934 T. S. Eliot Rock i. 25 Robey's on the 'alls; but this gentleman..used to hentertain the toffs.
1942 E. Blom Mus. in Eng. x. 168 The ‘halls’ were the last places where anybody would have thought of going for the sake of music.
1967 Listener 8 June 760/2 The vital and self-confident art of the halls..a London Sound to set beside the Liverpool sort.
8. The entrance-room or vestibule of a house; hence, the lobby or entrance passage.The entrance-room was formerly often one of the principal sitting-rooms, of which many examples still remain in old country houses.
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society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > a building > parts of building > room > types of room by situation > [noun] > entrance-hall or vestibule
fore-entry1535
hall1663
entrance hall1677
side entry1680
tambour1728
vestibule1730
entryway1746
entry hall1753
oeil-de-boeuf1785
voorhuis1822
voorkamer1827
atrium1864
hallway1877
wind-porch1899
mud room1950
1663 B. Gerbier Counsel to Builders 10 The Hall of a private-house, serving for the most part, but for a Passage.
1707 G. Farquhar Beaux Stratagem i. 1 The Company..has stood in the Hall this Hour, and no Body to shew them to their Chambers.
1790 J. B. Moreton Manners & Customs West India Islands 24 Do not keep loitering about the hall or piazza.
1848 W. M. Thackeray Little Dinner at Timmins's iii Fitz tumbled over the basket..which stood in the hall.
1897 M. Hamilton McLeod of Camerons 259 They were still standing in the hall of the hotel.
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1712 J. James tr. A.-J. Dézallier d'Argenville Theory & Pract. Gardening 19 Groves..Close-Walks, Galleries, and Halls of Verdure.
1712 J. James tr. A.-J. Dézallier d'Argenville Theory & Pract. Gardening 49 You should always..make something Noble in the Middle of a Wood, as a Hall of Horse-Chesnuts, a Water-work..or the like.
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1845 J. H. Parker Gloss. Terms Archit. (ed. 4) I. 197 They [sc. the walls] were also sometimes hung with tapestry or carpeting, and a set of hangings of this kind was occasionally called a Hall or Hallyng.
11. In allusive phrases: bachelor('s) hall, an establishment presided over by an unmarried man, or a man in the absence of his wife; (U.S.) apartments for bachelors. †cutpurse hall, †ruffian's hall, a place where cutpurses or ruffians congregate, or exercise their pursuits. See also liberty hall n. at liberty n.1 Compounds 2.
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society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > dwelling place or abode > a dwelling > a house > types of house > [noun] > houses occupied by specific types of people
grass house1557
woman-house1566
fishing-house1676
family house1727
henhouse1785
women-house1792
bachelor('s) hall1841
bachelor-apartment1857
garçonnière1927
bachelor1968
bachelorette1973
pit house1974
squat1975
1615 T. Tomkis Albumazar iii. vii. sig. Gv 'Tis the cunningst nimmer Of the whole company of cut-purse hall.
a1640 P. Massinger City-Madam (1658) i. ii. 77 My gate ruffians hall: What insolence is this?
1833 H. Barnard in Maryland Hist. Mag. 13 369 He keeps bachelor's Hall.
1835 J. H. Ingraham South-West II. 60 Here are congregated store-houses, boarding houses, and bachelor's halls.
1841 C. Dickens Old Curiosity Shop ii. l. 74 I'll have my Bachelor's Hall at the counting-house.
1843 C. Dickens Martin Chuzzlewit (1844) xi. 134 ‘Bachelor's Hall you know, cousin,’ said Mr. Jonas.
1857 W. Chandless Visit Salt Lake ii. vi. 235 Several of them kept ‘bachelors' hall’ together in a small house.
1885 C. F. Holder Marvels Animal Life 226 Captain Sol, who was a widower, and kept bachelor's hall, so to speak.
1928 F. N. Hart Bellamy Trial i. 25 He keeps bachelor hall in a small bungalow near the village.
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society > leisure > dancing > place for dancing > [interjection] > make room for dance
a hall! a hall!1599
the world > physical sensation > hearing and noise > voice or vocal sound > cry or shout (loudness) > [noun] > shout to clear way
a hall! a hall!1599
1599 W. Shakespeare Romeo & Juliet i. v. 26 A hall, a hall, giue roome, and foote it gyrles. View more context for this quotation
1599 G. Chapman Humerous Dayes Myrth sig. G3v A hall, a hall, the pageant of the Butterie.
1623 T. Middleton Invention in Wks. (1886) VIII. 373 A hall! a hall! below, stand clear.
1689 S. Sewall Diary 19 Mar. (1973) I. 205 When the People cry'd, a Hall, a Hall, the Aldermen came up two by two, the Mace carried before them.
1808 W. Scott Marmion v. xvii. 268 Lords to the dance,—a hall! a hall!
Compounds
C1. General attributive.
a.
hall-bible n.
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society > faith > aspects of faith > Bible, Scripture > text > edition > [noun] > place or purpose
hall-bible1672
family bible?1720
ha'-Bible1786
Gideon Bible1906
1672 Acc. Christ's Coll. in R. Willis & J. W. Clark Archit. Hist. Univ. Cambr. (1886) III. 368 The Hall-Bible is bound in 1672.
1786 R. Burns Cotter's Saturday Night xii The big ha' Bible, ance his father's pride.
1823 J. Galt Entail I. xix. 158 The big ha' Bible was accordingly removed..from the shelf where it commonly lay.
hall-board n.
hall-book n.
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society > communication > record > written record > register or record book > [noun]
Domesday Book1178
registera1325
bookc1405
red book?1445
registery1483
register book1515
regesture1526
registrya1529
enroll1533
ledger1550
ledger-book1553
registry book1562
by-book1593
regest1670
registrary1696
hall-book1746
blotter1887
1746 M. Hughes Plain Narr. Late Rebellion (verso title page) Entered in the Hall-Book of the Company of Stationers.
hall-ceiling n.
hall-chair n.
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1864 C. Dickens Our Mutual Friend (1865) I. i. ii. 5 The Veneering establishment, from the hall-chairs..to the grand pianoforte.
1939 A. Clarke Sister Eucharia i. 7 The stage is seen to be quite bare except for two high hall chairs.
hall-chimney n.
hall-cleaner n.
hall-clock n.
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the world > time > instruments for measuring time > clock > [noun]
clock1370
knock1502
watch-clock1592
timist1711
goer1730
tick-ticka1777
dial plate1796
hall-clock1815
tick-tock1947
1815 W. Wordsworth White Doe of Rylstone iv. 66 The Hall-clock..points at nine.
hall-feast n.
hall-floor n.
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1460 Lybeaus Disc. 1765 Amydde the halle flore.
hall-hearth n.
hall-keeper n.
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society > authority > subjection > service > servant > personal or domestic servant > domestic servant > [noun] > usher > door- or gate-keeper
doorwardc950
gate-wardc1000
porter?a1300
ostiary?a1475
portitor1480
doorkeeper1535
gatekeeper1572
janitora1640
conciergea1697
hall-keeper1705
durwan1773
commissioner1820
lodge-keeper1855
doorman1858
lodge-man1892
commissionaire1895
dvornik1903
linkman1939
1705 T. Hearne Remarks & Coll. 12 Nov. A Hall Keeper for Blackwell Hall.
hall-lamp n.
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the world > matter > light > artificial light > an artificial light > [noun] > lamp > in a specific place or position
side lamp1780
centre light1821
hall-lamp1834
headlamp1879
1834 T. Wentworth West India Sketch Bk. I. 153 A common hall lamp was suspended from one of the centre beams.
hall-man n.
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1919 T. K. Holmes Man from Tall Timber i. 3 ‘Shucks! why didn't you say H. Harvey Stafford?’ interrupted the hall-man.
hall-pillar n.
hall-porter n.
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society > occupation and work > worker > workers according to type of work > manual or industrial worker > other manual or industrial workers > [noun] > porter > types of
wine-porter1580
street porter1606
tackle-house porter1606
tackle-porter1607
sealed porter1631
ticket-porter1646
tub-woman1660
keep-door1682
Suisse1763
bamboo-coolie1800
hop-porter1812
plyer1826
night porter1841
fellowship1864
hall-porter1883
mobber1892
redcap1903
badgeman1904
bummaree1954
1883 D. Cook On Stage I. ix. 204 There is no situation in the world where a man can better study his kind than the hall~porter's chair of a London theatre.
1934 Punch 5 Aug. 164/2 The hall-porter moved wearily across the floor to take my luggage.
b.
hall-like adj.
C2. Also hall-house n., hallmark n., etc. † hall-reader n. Obsolete one who read the Bible or other book in the college hall.† hall-spoon n. Obsolete a spoon made of hallmarked silver.
hall-bedroom n. U.S. a small bedroom partitioned off at one end of a hall.
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society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > a building > parts of building > room > room by type of use > [noun] > bedroom
clevec825
bedchamberc1390
wardrobea1400
kuchiez kotec1400
garderobe?c1450
cubicle1483
pallet chambera1535
bed-place1566
kitchen chamber1573
bedroom1600
cubiculoa1616
lodginga1616
lodging-room1615
bower1674
ruelle1676
lodging-chambera1684
common chamber1684
sleeping-room1699
hall-bedroom1738
berth1806
bunk-room1855
bed-house1881
cubicule1887
bedder1897
bed1926
sleeping-platform1935
roomette1937
single1963
maid-room1992
1738 in H. H. Metcalf & O. G. Hammond Probate Rec. New Hampsh. (1914) II. 280 Samuel Brewster shall have..ye Hall Bed Room.
1886 H. James Bostonians II. xxi. 44 One of his rooms was directly above the street-door of the house; such a dormitory, when it is so exiguous, is called in the nomenclature of New York a ‘hall bedroom’.
1893 K. D. Wiggin Polly Oliver (1894) vii. 76 Run down and ask Mrs. Howe if she will let us have her hall-bedroom tonight.
1909 Chambers's Jrnl. 386/1 Appreciating the difficulty of making a studio out of a hall-bedroom.
1922 A. Bennett Lilian i. vi. 57 In New York it would have been termed a hall-bedroom.
1934 L. Mumford in W. Frank et al. Amer. & Alfred Stieglitz ii. 35 Lonely young men and women from the country..faced their first year in the city from hall bedrooms on the top-floor rear of unamiable boarding-houses.
hall-bed roomer n. U.S. one who sleeps in this.
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1899 J. L. Williams Stolen Story 230 Like many an other lonely hall-bed roomer.
hall-boy n. a page-boy in a large house; a call-boy in the hall of a hotel or the like.
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society > authority > subjection > service > servant > types of servant > [noun] > who runs errands > boy > in an hotel or inn
bellboy1861
hall-boy1884
bell-hopper1900
bell-hop1910
1884 N.Y. Herald 27 Oct. 2/2 Janitors and hall boys in attendance.
1885 C. M. Yonge Nuttie's Father ii. xiii. 158 The hall boy, an alert young fellow, had already dashed down the steps.
1892 C. M. Yonge That Stick I. ii. 23 He had been hall boy to a duke, footman to a viscountess, valet to an earl.
1912 L. J. Vance Destroying Angel xx The hall-boys said you were busy on the telephone.
hall day n. = court-day n. 1.
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society > law > administration of justice > judicial body, assembly, or court > a or the session of a court > [noun] > period when courts sit > day when court sits
law-day1235
court-day1484
pleadable day1569
hall day1585
1585 J. Higgins tr. Junius Nomenclator 371 Dies fastus..An hall day: a court day: a day of pleading, as in terme time at Westminster hall, &c.
1700 N. Luttrell Diary in Brief Hist. Relation State Affairs (1857) IV. 642 A private verdict was given, and will be affirmed the next hall day in court.
hall-disputation n.
hall-exercise n. a disputation in a college hall.
hall-full n. as many as a hall will hold.
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the world > relative properties > measurement > the scientific measurement of volume > measure(s) of capacity > amount defined by capacity > [noun] > amount that fills a building > specific parts
roomful1673
pitful1841
windowful1845
yardful1860
shop windowful1869
hall-full1883
galleryful1885
1883 W. Black Shandon Bells xxviii A hall-full of men smoking pipes.
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society > education > learning > learner > college or university student > [noun] > types at specific universities
son?c1550
Bibler1569
round cap1572
batteler1604
fellow commoner1614
gentleman-commoner1614
primar1642
Bible-clerk1650
Harry-Sopha1661
hodman1677
nobleman1682
seconder1684
grueller1691
ternar1698
tuft1755
red gowna1774
ten-year-man1816
prick-bill1818
bear1828
martinet1831
sheep1865
trotter1883
skiver1884
hall-reader1886
sign-off1902
night climber1937
techie1969
1886 R. Willis & J. W. Clark Archit. Hist. Univ. Cambr. III. 369 The desk which was used by the Hall-Reader.
hall-room n. U.S. a room at the end of and of the width of a hall; also v. intransitive, to live in such a room.
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society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > a building > parts of building > room > types of room by situation > [noun] > others
garden room1619
tablinum1715
garden apartment1751
piazza1773
turret-room1803
shed-room1843
hall-room1859
return room1869
mid-place1871
stoep-room1880
sun space1907
1859 Ladies' Repository 19 466/2 The little hall-room is just large enough for the boys to sleep in.
1886 S. W. Mitchell Roland Blake (1895) v. 39 Miss Darnell had for her own use a like space on the third floor, leaving to Miss Wynne a bed~chamber..known as a hall-room.
1906 ‘O. Henry’ Four Million (1916) xiv. 139 The restaurant was next door to the old red brick in which she hall-roomed.
1906 ‘O. Henry’ Four Million (1916) xiv. 140 Schulenberg was to send three meals per diem to Sarah's hall-room.
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the world > food and drink > food > setting table > table utensils > [noun] > cutlery > spoon > types of
maidenhead1495
slipc1530
Apostle spoon1631
tea-spoon1686
hall-spoon1688
pap spoon1691
tablespoon1741
dessert-spoon1808
salt-spoon1820
monkey spoon1833
Puritan spoon1875
sugar shell1895
seal-top1898
slotted spoon1900
absinthe spoon1905
trifid1927
1688 London Gaz. No. 2339/4 15 Spoons, 4 being Hall Spoons gilt.
hallstand n. a piece of furniture used to receive umbrellas, hats, coats, and brushes usually situated near the front door in the hall of the house.
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society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > a building > furniture and fittings > stand > [noun] > hall-stand
hallstand1882
hall-tree1891
1882 Times 31 Jan. 16/6 (advt.) A very fine carved oak bookcase, two cabinets, a ditto hall stand and table.
1897 R. Kron Little Londoner (1917) 28 Not far from the door, there are an umbrella-stand, a hat-rack, with several pegs on it, and a large looking-glass; if the three are combined, such a piece of furniture is called a hall-stand.
1911 Daily Colonist (Victoria, Brit. Columbia) 4 Apr. 19/1 (advt.) Oak Hall Stand, Brussels Rugs.
1943 K. Tennant Ride on Stranger iii. 23 By applying her eye to one of the coloured panes in the front door, she could make out the dim bulk of a hall-stand.
1952 J. Gloag Short Dict. Furnit. 282 Hall stands were often made wholly of cast iron.
hall-table n. (a) a large, solid table belonging to the hall in a mansion; (b) a small table situated in the hall near the front door.
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society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > a building > furniture and fittings > table > [noun] > large hall-table
daisa1259
hall-table1682
society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > a building > furniture and fittings > table > [noun] > table in entrance hall or passage
slab1739
hall-table1869
1682 A. Behn City-heiress v. i. 52 Being drunk and falling asleep under the Hall-table.
1808 W. Scott Marmion vi. Introd. 302 The huge hall-table's oaken face, Scrubbed till it shone.
1869 L. M. Alcott Little Women II. xxiii. 327 He..never..expressed..surprise at seeing the Professor's hat on the Marches hall-table.
1902 H. James Wings of Dove ii. iv. 82 I shan't leave mine [sc. my letters] on the hall-table.
a1941 V. Woolf New Dress in Haunted House (1944) 44 She touched the letters on the hall table.
hall-tree n. U.S. a hallstand or hat rack.
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society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > a building > furniture and fittings > stand > [noun] > hall-stand
hallstand1882
hall-tree1891
1891 Harper's Mag. June 79/1 One could distinguish..the hall tree, whereon Rhodes's hat swung in its place.
1900 E. E. Peake Darlingtons ix. 79 She..walked back to the sitting-room, stopping to touch up her hair before the glass in the hall~tree.
1954 J. Steinbeck Sweet Thursday xviii. 108 He busted two windows and run off with the deer-antler hall-tree.
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hall pass n. originally and chiefly U.S. (a) a note or token authorizing a student to walk unsupervised through the school corridors during class time (for example to go to the toilet or the nurse's office); (b) figurative permission to do something, especially to break a rule or code of conduct (cf. free pass n. (b) at free adj., n., and adv. Compounds 2).
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1930 South Bend (Indiana) Tribune 12 Sept. 17/2 Teachers will give hall passes to students when it is necessary to leave classes in session.
1989 R. Kenan Visitation of Spirits (1996) 13 As he walked down the hall he suddenly realized he had no hall pass and that the vice-principal might walk by and demand it.
1999 Texas Monthly Mar. 21/3 For the past forty years, every gorgeous woman has thrown herself at him. He thinks he has a hall pass for bad behavior.
2014 L. Felts Miracle Kidney Cleanse 109 I will give you a hall pass for a decadent chocolate dessert or a nice glass of wine on special occasions.
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hall of mirrors n. (a) a room lined, filled, or decorated with mirrors, often as a show of opulence in a grand house; (b) (in an amusement park, fairground, etc.) a room containing full-length mirrors with surfaces curved to distort a person's reflection, often in a maze-like attraction through which a visitor must navigate; cf. funhouse n.Frequently in figurative use, suggesting disorienting replication, grotesque distortion, or both. [In use with reference to the Palace of Versailles (compare quot. 1984) after French Galerie des Glaces (1818 or earlier).]
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society > leisure > entertainment > place of amusement or entertainment > fairground or amusement park > [noun] > other side-shows
poppy-show1691
hall of mirrors1789
peep show1851
funhouse1920
freak show1939
Wall of Death1946
society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > a building > parts of building > room > types of room generally > [noun] > others
hell1310
summer hall1388
summer parloura1425
paradise1485
fire room1591
garden room1619
ease-room1629
portcullis1631
divan1678
but?1700
sluttery1711
rotunda1737
glass casea1777
dungeon1782
hall of mirrors1789
balcony-chamber1800
showroom1820
mirror room1858
vomitorium1923
mosquito room1925
refuge room1937
quiet room1938
Florida room1968
roomset1980
wet room1982
1789 tr. Friend of Virtue I. 46 He..introduced them into an hall of mirrors, the wax lights of which, a thousand and a thousand times reflected, produced astonishing effects.
1907 Punch (Melbourne) 18 Apr. 528/2 Newspaper reports..are apt to be like that Hall of Mirrors..where you see yourself distorted into length and breadth, and never yourself at all.
1984 M. Jonas United States & Germany v. 147 The ceremony was staged by the French in the Hall of Mirrors of the palace of Versailles.
2000 N.Y. Times 9 Nov. a11/4 Today's testimony became a hall of mirrors: witness after witness touched cryptically on the arcane angles of popular theories about who blew up the plane.
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Halln.2
Physics.
Used attributively to designate an effect discovered by Hall and various quantities associated therewith (see quot. 1958).
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the world > matter > physics > electromagnetic radiation > electricity > voltage > electrical potential > [noun] > effect associated with
Hall1867
the world > matter > physics > solid state physics > semiconductivity > [noun] > carrier of charges > mobile carrier > mobility of
Hall1867
1867 Sci. Amer. 19 Oct. 242/3 Of a somewhat different character, is Hall's electric switch, so arranged that the continuous ringing of a bell gives evidence of the misplacement of the switch.
1922 R. Glazebrook Dict. Appl. Physics II. 468/2 The effect of a magnetic field upon the electrical conductivity of metals, first discovered by Lord Kelvin in 1856 and known as the Hall effect, is very marked in the case of bismuth wire or plates.
1940 Chambers's Techn. Dict. 400/1 Hall effect, a change in the distribution of current in a strip of metal, due to a magnetic field.
1958 Van Nostrand's Sci. Encycl. (ed. 3) 784/1 In 1879 Hall..discovered that if a strip of gold-leaf, carrying an electric current longitudinally was placed in a magnetic field with the plane of the strip perpendicular to the direction of the field, points directly opposite each other on the edges of the strip acquired a difference of electric potential... The transverse electric potential gradient per unit magnetic field intensity per unit current density is called the ‘Hall coefficient’ for the metal in question... The Hall angle is the ratio of Ey..to the field Ex... The Hall mobility is the mobility of the electrons or holes in a semiconductor as measured by the Hall effect.
1965 C. S. G. Phillips & R. J. P. Williams Inorg. Chem. I. vi. 195 Other methods which measure the mobility of the electrons, e.g. measurement of the Hall effect, also permit a distinction to be made between the two mechanisms of electron migration.
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