hall
Signification (Anglais)
- A corridor; a hallway.
- A large meeting room.
- A manor house (originally because a magistrate's court was held in the hall of his mansion).
- A building providing student accommodation at a university.
- The principal room of a secular medieval building.
- (obsolete) Cleared passageway through a crowd, as for dancing.
- A place for special professional education, or for conferring professional degrees or licences.
- (India) A living room.
- A college's canteen, which is often but not always coterminous with a traditional hall.
- A meal served and eaten at a college's hall.
Concepts
résidence universitaire
résidence d’étudiant
foyer du public
corridor urbain
salle de réception
Ulm
Synonymes
large room
student residence
assembly hall
manor hall
mansion house
Traductions
Fréquence
Prononcé comme (IPA)
/hɔːl/
Étymologie (Anglais)
In summary
Inherited from Middle English halle, from Old English heall (“hall, dwelling, house; palace, temple; law-court”), from Proto-West Germanic *hallu, from Proto-Germanic *hallō (“hall”), from Proto-Indo-European *ḱel- (“to hide, conceal”). Cognate with Scots hall, haw (“hall”), Dutch hal (“hall”), German Halle (“hall”), Norwegian hall (“hall”), Swedish hall (“hall”), Icelandic höll (“palace”), Latin cella (“room, cell”), Sanskrit शाला (śā́lā, “house, mansion, hall”). Doublet of cell and cella.
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