hall

名词 n.
中文释义
英 /hɔːl/|/hoːl/    美 /hoːl/

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A corridor; a hallway.
    — The drinking fountain was out in the hall.
  2. A large meeting room.
    — The hotel had three halls for conferences, and two were in use by the convention.
  3. A manor house (originally because a magistrate's court was held in the hall of his mansion).
    — The duke lived in a great hall overlooking the sea.
  4. A building providing student accommodation at a university.
    — The student government hosted several social events so that students from different halls would intermingle.
  5. The principal room of a secular medieval building.
  6. Cleared passageway through a crowd, as for dancing. obsolete
    — Then cry, a hall, a hall! Come, father Rosin, with your fiddle now.
  7. A place for special professional education, or for conferring professional degrees or licences.
    — a Divinity Hall; Apothecaries' Hall
  8. A living room. India
  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.

词形变化

halls plural

词汇关系

衍生词
ancestral hall assembly hall audience hall bachelor's hall barangay hall beer hall BHK booking hall chow hall cinema hall city hall cloth hall concert hall dance hall dancehall dance-hall dining hall dining-hall drill hall exhibition hall firehall fire hall food hall Forest Hall formal hall gift hall great hall guildhall guild-hall hallage hallcest hall church hallful Hall Green hall house hallite Hall i' th' Wood hallmark hall-mark hallmate hall monitor hallmote hall of fame hall-of-famer hall of mirrors hall of residence hall of shame hall pass hallpass hall porter hallstand hall test hall tree hallway Hampden Hall Hams Hall Hereford Hall hiring hall interhall juvenile hall Keith Hall Lea Hall lecture hall linen hall Lostock Hall mead hall Meadowhall mess hall Midge Hall moot hall moot-hall music hall Newton Hall Northop Hall ordination hall Park Hall permanent private hall pool hall rec hall recreation hall residence hall riding hall ring-hall Rocky Hall Scale Hall slaughterhall sports hall stair hall study hall ticket hall town hall Trungley Hall village hall Whitehall White Hall woolhall

词源

Inherited from Middle English halle (“hall”), from Old English heall (“hall, dwelling, house, palace, temple, law-court”), from Proto-West Germanic *hallu (“hall”), 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”), Danish hal (“hall, sports centre”), Faroese høll (“hall, palace”), Icelandic höll (“palace”), Norwegian hall (“hall”), Swedish hall (“hall”), Latin cella (“room, cell”), Sanskrit शाला (śā́lā, “house, mansion, hall”). Doublet of cell and cella.
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