hall

Senso (English)

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.

Synonyms

corridor

lobby

room

hallway

vestibule

auditorium

foyer

anteroom

passageway

antechamber

saloon

passage

entrance hall

pavilion

house

🏠

building

chamber

dormitory

temple

dorm

residence hall

gallery

court

residence

mansion

living room

parlor

large room

aisle

student residence

drawing room

alleyway

assembly hall

salon

sitting room

concourse

tunnel

atrium

lecture hall

mansion house

hotel

🏨

inn

manse

manor hall

parlour

apartment

palace

wayside shelter

inner porch

outer entrance hall

student lodging

aula

private dwelling

hospitium

grand hall

first room

a lobby

assembly

assembly room

avenue

canal

church

⛪

college

concert hall

courtyard

dining-room

doorway

drawing-room

duct

edifice

entrance

film studio

gangway

guesthouse

guest room

gym

hall of residence

halls

inner ear

lane

meatus

meetinghouse

nave

office

🏢

playhouse

public building

rear

salle

sanctuary

shed

shrine

street

walk-through

body cavity

community centre

entrance-room

public office

government office

rear guard

lodging place

meeting hall

spacious room

access

Pronunciato come (IPA)

/hɔːl/

Etimologia (English)

Inherited from inglese medio: halle

Inherited from inglese antico: heall

Cognate with scozzese: hall, haw

Cognate with olandese: hal

Cognate with tedesco: Halle

Cognate with norvegese: hall

Cognate with svedese: hall

Cognate with islandese: höll

Cognate with latino: cella

Cognate with sanscrito: शाला

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.