town halln.

Brit.

/ˌtaʊn ˈhɔːl/, U.S.

/ˌtaʊn ˈhɔl/,

/ˌtaʊn ˈhɑl/

Forms:

α. See town n. and hall n.¹

β. Scottish 1800s town's ha'.

Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: town n., hall n.¹

Etymology: In α. forms < town n. + hall n.¹ In β. forms < the genitive of town n. + hall n.¹ Compare Middle French ostel de la ville , hotel de ville hôtel de ville n.

a. A building used for the administration of local government, the holding of court sessions, public meetings, entertainments, etc.; (in early use also) a large hall used for such purposes within a larger building or set of buildings. Cf. townhouse n. 1a.

ΘΚΠ

society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > a building > public building > [noun] > town hall

toll-hall1395

tollbooth1440

town hallc1453

town's hall?1609

Rathaus1611

booth-halla1711

palace1808

society > authority > rule or government > ruler or governor > deliberative, legislative, or administrative assembly > local government body > [noun] > local government offices > town-hall

guild-hall?a1000

tolsel1373

toll-hall1395

tollbooth1440

common house1450

town hallc1453

townhouse?1518

state housea1587

City Hall1603

c1453 (c1437) Brut (Harl. 53) 574 (MED) Þere was a cry made in þe market-place of Caleis, þat al maner of men..shuld come to þe toune-hall.

1483 in J. P. Collier Househ. Bks. John Duke of Norfolk & Thomas Earl of Surrey (1844) 460 Item, for pottes that ware brokyn in the towne hale.

1538 J. London in T. Wright Three Chapters Lett. Suppression Monasteries (1843) 223 [At Reading] Ther towne hall ys a very small howse, and stondith upon the ryver.

1622 J. Taylor Verry Merry Wherry-ferry-voy. sig. B5 A faire Towne Hall, For solemne meetings, or a Festiuall.

1697 London Gaz. No. 3336/3 Yesterday the Mayor..proclaimed the Peace before the Town-Hall and Dutch Bay Hall.

1701 in Gentleman's Mag. (1818) 88 Suppl. 601/2 We inned here at the town-house, the town-hall being over part of it.

1789 J. Wesley Let. 21 July (1931) VIII. 155 Any increase of the work of God..probably..will be enlarged by your preaching in the Town Hall, for many will come thither who would not come to our preaching-house.

1832 B. Disraeli Let. 26 Dec. (1982) I. 313 I did not attend the meeting in the Town-hall..for the purpose of supporting an Ultra Tory candidate.

1897 R. N. Bain tr. M. Jókai Pretty Michal (ed. 2) xxii. 172 The clock in the town-hall tower struck eight.

1938 New Statesman 19 Feb. 277/2 One is left wondering whether the town hall has sealed-off rooms, and whether the chief officials enter by different doors.

1962 San Francisco Chron. 9 Feb. (Sport section) 42/1 They gathered in the town halls and screeched, ‘Ban the new pole!’

1974 Irish Democrat Nov. 2/4 Irish concert in..Acton Town Hall.

2001 Philadelphia Inquirer 9 Oct. a13/3 A sign outside the town hall invited residents to a forum tonight on ‘Islamophobia in the wake of the U.S. atrocities’.

b. By metonymy (with singular or plural agreement): the government or administration of a town; the town authorities.

ΘΚΠ

society > authority > rule or government > ruler or governor > deliberative, legislative, or administrative assembly > local government body > [noun]

council1428

local board1788

local council1788

local authority1795

town hall1925

1925 N.Y. Herald Tribune 18 Apr. 10/5 (heading) Town Hall denies civic affairs will oust music.

1964 Los Angeles Times 16 Oct. 27/2 (heading) Town Hall tells results of propositions poll.

1984 Housing (Inst. of Housing) July 11/2 There have been town hall bosses of different political hues and varying competence since local government began.

1998 Herald Express (Torquay) (Nexis) 16 Oct. 1 The Town Hall were considering making the cuts to create extra funds for some of the resort's needier pupils.

2007 Independent 13 Mar. 29/2 Town halls and trades unions are screaming blue murder because they've been caught out.

2. North American. An event at which a politician answers questions on political issues from members of the public. Later also in extended use. Frequently attributive, esp. in town hall meeting.

ΘΚΠ

society > society and the community > social relations > association for a common purpose > meeting or assembling for common purpose > [noun] > a meeting > types of

morn-speechOE

court1154

morrow-speech1183

conventicle1382

congregation1389

plenary session1483

journeyc1500

night school1529

assession1560

general meeting1565

family meeting1638

panegyris1647

desk1691

collegea1703

annual general meeting1725

mass meeting1733

panegyre1757

plenum1772

family council1797

coterie1805

Round Table1830

GA1844

indignation meeting1848

protest meeting1852

hui1858

primary1859

Quaker meeting1861

mothers' meeting1865

sit-down1868

town hall1912

jamboree1919

protest rally1921

con1940

face-to-face1960

morning prayers1961

struggle meeting1966

be-in1967

love-in1967

plenary1969

catch-up1972

rencontre1975

schmoozefest1976

1912 Kansas City (Missouri) Star 8 Aug. 1/1 I want the people to ask me questions and to suggest ideas. It will be a sort of town hall meeting where everybody will be at liberty to take part.

1934 Washington Post 17 Dec. 1/2 Norman Thomas speaks to enthusiastic crowd at town hall meeting. Three members of the Roosevelt Cabinet, flanked by an audience that was quite at home in the Shoreham ballroom, heard the New Deal attacked..last night.

1980 N.Y. Times 15 Oct. a31/6 Carter is a bit of a genius at this ‘town hall’ game. He asks for the questioner's first name.

1990 St. Petersburg (Florida) Times (Nexis) 23 Sept. (Business section) 1 Six months ago he [sc. the company chairman] began holding internal ‘town hall’ meetings, each with 175 employees randomly selected by computer.

1994 D. Nimmo in R. E. Denton 1992 Presidential Campaign ix. 217 At a town hall broadcast by CBS.., Clinton encountered a housewife who asked what appeared to be a spontaneous hardball question.

2009 D. Plouffe Audacity to Win (2010) 239 He said they were going to issue a challenge to us to do ten joint town halls in addition to the presidential debates.

Compounds

town-hall clock n. (also town-hall clocks) originally English regional (Cumberland) moschatel, Adoxa moschatellina. [So called on account of its inflorescence, which consists of five flowers, four of them facing outwards at right angles to each other (reminiscent of the dials on a clock tower), and the fifth at the top facing upwards.]

ΘΚΠ

the world > plants > particular plants > plants and herbs > according to family > Caprifoliaceae family or plant > [noun] > moschatel

musk-wood crowfoot1688

moschatel1732

hollow-root1788

musk-crowfoot1855

town-hall clock1899

1899 E. W. Prevost Dickinson's Gloss. Words & Phrases Cumberland (new ed.) p. xcv Adoxa moschatellina. Town-hall clock (Carlisle).

1946 G. Grigson in W. J. Turner Nature in Brit. 93 Professor Salisbury has recored a good name for moschatel—‘Town Hall Clock,’ because four of its five flowers look out, like clock faces, from the sides of a cube.

1968 F. Warner Garland 13 The red herb-Robert twined a bridge With celandine and town-hall-clocks.

1996 R. Mabey Flora Britannica 349/1 Townhall clock often grows in quite large colonies, especially where the soil is damp or slightly disturbed, as along the edges of woodland rides.

2012 Bristol Evening Post (Nexis) 7 Apr. 12 There's also the elegant twayblade, the delicate moschatel (known as town hall clock, due to its four-facing flowers) and the ghostly toothwort.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2014; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	town hall
释义	town halln. Brit. /ˌtaʊn ˈhɔːl/, U.S. /ˌtaʊn ˈhɔl/, /ˌtaʊn ˈhɑl/ Forms: α. See town n. and hall n.¹ β. Scottish 1800s town's ha'. Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: town n., hall n.¹ Etymology: In α. forms < town n. + hall n.¹ In β. forms < the genitive of town n. + hall n.¹ Compare Middle French ostel de la ville , hotel de ville hôtel de ville n. 1. a. A building used for the administration of local government, the holding of court sessions, public meetings, entertainments, etc.; (in early use also) a large hall used for such purposes within a larger building or set of buildings. Cf. townhouse n. 1a. ΘΚΠ society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > a building > public building > [noun] > town hall toll-hall1395 tollbooth1440 town hallc1453 town's hall?1609 Rathaus1611 booth-halla1711 palace1808 society > authority > rule or government > ruler or governor > deliberative, legislative, or administrative assembly > local government body > [noun] > local government offices > town-hall guild-hall?a1000 tolsel1373 toll-hall1395 tollbooth1440 common house1450 town hallc1453 townhouse?1518 state housea1587 City Hall1603 c1453 (c1437) Brut (Harl. 53) 574 (MED) Þere was a cry made in þe market-place of Caleis, þat al maner of men..shuld come to þe toune-hall. 1483 in J. P. Collier Househ. Bks. John Duke of Norfolk & Thomas Earl of Surrey (1844) 460 Item, for pottes that ware brokyn in the towne hale. 1538 J. London in T. Wright Three Chapters Lett. Suppression Monasteries (1843) 223 [At Reading] Ther towne hall ys a very small howse, and stondith upon the ryver. 1622 J. Taylor Verry Merry Wherry-ferry-voy. sig. B5 A faire Towne Hall, For solemne meetings, or a Festiuall. 1697 London Gaz. No. 3336/3 Yesterday the Mayor..proclaimed the Peace before the Town-Hall and Dutch Bay Hall. 1701 in Gentleman's Mag. (1818) 88 Suppl. 601/2 We inned here at the town-house, the town-hall being over part of it. 1789 J. Wesley Let. 21 July (1931) VIII. 155 Any increase of the work of God..probably..will be enlarged by your preaching in the Town Hall, for many will come thither who would not come to our preaching-house. 1832 B. Disraeli Let. 26 Dec. (1982) I. 313 I did not attend the meeting in the Town-hall..for the purpose of supporting an Ultra Tory candidate. 1897 R. N. Bain tr. M. Jókai Pretty Michal (ed. 2) xxii. 172 The clock in the town-hall tower struck eight. 1938 New Statesman 19 Feb. 277/2 One is left wondering whether the town hall has sealed-off rooms, and whether the chief officials enter by different doors. 1962 San Francisco Chron. 9 Feb. (Sport section) 42/1 They gathered in the town halls and screeched, ‘Ban the new pole!’ 1974 Irish Democrat Nov. 2/4 Irish concert in..Acton Town Hall. 2001 Philadelphia Inquirer 9 Oct. a13/3 A sign outside the town hall invited residents to a forum tonight on ‘Islamophobia in the wake of the U.S. atrocities’. b. By metonymy (with singular or plural agreement): the government or administration of a town; the town authorities. ΘΚΠ society > authority > rule or government > ruler or governor > deliberative, legislative, or administrative assembly > local government body > [noun] council1428 local board1788 local council1788 local authority1795 town hall1925 1925 N.Y. Herald Tribune 18 Apr. 10/5 (heading) Town Hall denies civic affairs will oust music. 1964 Los Angeles Times 16 Oct. 27/2 (heading) Town Hall tells results of propositions poll. 1984 Housing (Inst. of Housing) July 11/2 There have been town hall bosses of different political hues and varying competence since local government began. 1998 Herald Express (Torquay) (Nexis) 16 Oct. 1 The Town Hall were considering making the cuts to create extra funds for some of the resort's needier pupils. 2007 Independent 13 Mar. 29/2 Town halls and trades unions are screaming blue murder because they've been caught out. 2. North American. An event at which a politician answers questions on political issues from members of the public. Later also in extended use. Frequently attributive, esp. in town hall meeting. ΘΚΠ society > society and the community > social relations > association for a common purpose > meeting or assembling for common purpose > [noun] > a meeting > types of morn-speechOE court1154 morrow-speech1183 conventicle1382 congregation1389 plenary session1483 journeyc1500 night school1529 assession1560 general meeting1565 family meeting1638 panegyris1647 desk1691 collegea1703 annual general meeting1725 mass meeting1733 panegyre1757 plenum1772 family council1797 coterie1805 Round Table1830 GA1844 indignation meeting1848 protest meeting1852 hui1858 primary1859 Quaker meeting1861 mothers' meeting1865 sit-down1868 town hall1912 jamboree1919 protest rally1921 con1940 face-to-face1960 morning prayers1961 struggle meeting1966 be-in1967 love-in1967 plenary1969 catch-up1972 rencontre1975 schmoozefest1976 1912 Kansas City (Missouri) Star 8 Aug. 1/1 I want the people to ask me questions and to suggest ideas. It will be a sort of town hall meeting where everybody will be at liberty to take part. 1934 Washington Post 17 Dec. 1/2 Norman Thomas speaks to enthusiastic crowd at town hall meeting. Three members of the Roosevelt Cabinet, flanked by an audience that was quite at home in the Shoreham ballroom, heard the New Deal attacked..last night. 1980 N.Y. Times 15 Oct. a31/6 Carter is a bit of a genius at this ‘town hall’ game. He asks for the questioner's first name. 1990 St. Petersburg (Florida) Times (Nexis) 23 Sept. (Business section) 1 Six months ago he [sc. the company chairman] began holding internal ‘town hall’ meetings, each with 175 employees randomly selected by computer. 1994 D. Nimmo in R. E. Denton 1992 Presidential Campaign ix. 217 At a town hall broadcast by CBS.., Clinton encountered a housewife who asked what appeared to be a spontaneous hardball question. 2009 D. Plouffe Audacity to Win (2010) 239 He said they were going to issue a challenge to us to do ten joint town halls in addition to the presidential debates. Compounds town-hall clock n. (also town-hall clocks) originally English regional (Cumberland) moschatel, Adoxa moschatellina. [So called on account of its inflorescence, which consists of five flowers, four of them facing outwards at right angles to each other (reminiscent of the dials on a clock tower), and the fifth at the top facing upwards.] ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > plants and herbs > according to family > Caprifoliaceae family or plant > [noun] > moschatel musk-wood crowfoot1688 moschatel1732 hollow-root1788 musk-crowfoot1855 town-hall clock1899 1899 E. W. Prevost Dickinson's Gloss. Words & Phrases Cumberland (new ed.) p. xcv Adoxa moschatellina. Town-hall clock (Carlisle). 1946 G. Grigson in W. J. Turner Nature in Brit. 93 Professor Salisbury has recored a good name for moschatel—‘Town Hall Clock,’ because four of its five flowers look out, like clock faces, from the sides of a cube. 1968 F. Warner Garland 13 The red herb-Robert twined a bridge With celandine and town-hall-clocks. 1996 R. Mabey Flora Britannica 349/1 Townhall clock often grows in quite large colonies, especially where the soil is damp or slightly disturbed, as along the edges of woodland rides. 2012 Bristol Evening Post (Nexis) 7 Apr. 12 There's also the elegant twayblade, the delicate moschatel (known as town hall clock, due to its four-facing flowers) and the ghostly toothwort. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2014; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.c1453
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