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# hallway

«hallway» in Mova's school dictionary: **a long narrow passage inside a building, with doors to rooms** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 1 sentence of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (hallway, hallways)

### meaning for a pupil

1) A hallway is a long narrow passage inside a building, with doors to rooms. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/hallway/#m1)

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

### sense in the lessons

A place with a length or floor area; things along it are counted. In everyday life: school hallways with lockers; walk, do not run. In safety: keep hallways clear for fire exits. In stories: a dark, quiet hallway. Phrases: «down the hallway», «in the hallway», «at the end of the hallway».

### examples

- The hallway is 12 metres long. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/hallway/#x1)
- There are 8 lockers on each side of the hallway. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/hallway/#x2)
- They put a carpet 2 m wide along the hallway. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/hallway/#x3)
- 6 doors open onto the hallway. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/hallway/#x4)
- No running in the hallway! [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/hallway/#x5)
- My classroom is at the end of the hallway. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/hallway/#x6)
- Hang your coat in the hallway. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/hallway/#x7)
- The hallway was dark, so I switched on the light. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/hallway/#x8)

### note

Its length may be split into equal parts or covered with carpet (area = length × width). Trap: things «on each side» mean doubling. Same as «hall» in the passage sense; «corridor» is a common word for it in schools in the UK.

### In the corpora

- [E-bike batteries must be charged only with the right charger, on a hard surface, and not overnight in a bedroom or hallway.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/technology/25-bicycles-and-other-wheels/17/)

### Trees and pragmatics

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