Significat

1. A corridor; a hallway.
2. A large meeting room.
3. A manor house (originally because a magistrate's court was held in the hall of his mansion).
4. A building providing student accommodation at a university.
5. The principal room of a secular medieval building.
6. (obsolete) Cleared passageway through a crowd, as for dancing.
7. A place for special professional education, or for conferring professional degrees or licences.
8. A living room.
9. A college's canteen, which is often but not always coterminous with a traditional hall.
10. A meal served and eaten at a college's hall.