guildhall
/ɡɪldˈhɔːl
/ /ˈɡɪldhɔːl/noun
1A building used as the meeting place of a guild or corporation.Ghent is much more of a living city, bustling and noisy, its waterways lined with fine merchants' houses, guildhalls and churches built through medieval wool wealth and later prosperity from grain trading....
- The richer they became, the more the inhabitants of the Baltic capitals spent on their houses, churches, and guildhalls.
- Look hard enough, and behind the snickets, gates and timbered houses you'll find a wealth of medieval guildhalls, Georgian town houses and National Trust properties.
1.1British A town hall.The move to use Windsor guildhall also met with problems when it emerged that, under the rules governing civil marriages, members of the public must be allowed to attend....
- Four men were ‘elected’ - in fact, nominated by the mayor in open guildhall for community consent - to assess the fines on offenders.
1.2 (Guildhall) The hall of the Corporation of the City of London, used for ceremonial occasions.The award ceremony will take place in the Great Hall of the Guildhall, London, on May 23....
- The councillor faced the prospect of racing across the city from the Guildhall to York Hospital's maternity ward.
- As the Tory leader delivered his stump speech from the steps of the Guildhall, a police officer filmed the crowd.