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# hall

«hall» in Mova's school dictionary: **a big room for meetings, concerts, plays or school…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (hall, halls)

### meaning for a pupil

1) A hall is a big room for meetings, concerts, plays or school assemblies. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/hall/#m1)

2) A hall, or hallway, is a passage inside a building, or the space by the front door of a house. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/hall/#m2)

3) Some big buildings are called halls, like a town hall or a hall of residence. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/hall/#m3)

4) A Hall of Fame honours famous people. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/hall/#m4)

### sense in the lessons

A place with seats or people counted, rows of chairs, or a floor with area. In everyday life: school hall, assembly, town hall, sports hall. In safety: do not run in the hall. Phrases: «school hall», «town hall», «down the hall», «hall pass».

### examples

- The hall has 20 rows of 15 chairs. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/hall/#x1)
- 300 people came to the hall. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/hall/#x2)
- The school hall is 30 m long. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/hall/#x3)
- How many seats are empty in the hall? [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/hall/#x4)
- We sang at assembly in the hall. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/hall/#x5)
- The bathroom is down the hall on the left. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/hall/#x6)
- Leave your wet boots in the hall. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/hall/#x7)
- You need a hall pass to leave the class. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/hall/#x8)
- The banqueting hall was in tumult. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/hall/#x9)

### note

Rows × chairs per row gives the seats; seats minus people gives the empty seats. Otherwise it is only a place. Homophone: haul (to pull something heavy).

### In the corpora

- [A polling station is a place, often a school or church hall, where people vote in secret in a small booth.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/31-votes-parties-and-the-people-in-charge/9/)
- [The hall is long and low, lit by a row of lamps hanging from the roof, with locked doors all round.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/2-alice-ch1-part2-the-little-door/6/)
- [She sheds "gallons of tears", making a pool about four inches deep that reaches half down the hall.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/3-alice-ch2-part1-curiouser-and-curiouser/11/)
- [The great hall, the glass table and the little door have "vanished completely".](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/7-alice-ch4-part1-the-rabbits-house/8/)
- [Round a bend they see Toad Hall: a grand old red-brick house with lawns down to the water.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/29-willows-ch2-part1-ducks-ditty-and-toad-hall/8/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «hall» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/hall/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.