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HALL, n. [L. aula; Heb. a tent, a palace.]

1. In architecture, a large room at the entrance of a house or palace. In the houses of ministers of state, magistrates, &c.,it is the place where they give audience and dispatch business.

2. An edifice in which courts of justice are held; as Westminster Hall, which was originally a royal palace,the kings of England formerly holding their parliaments and courts of judicature in their own dwellings, as is still the practice in Spain.

3. A manor-house, in which courts were formerly held.

4. A college, or large edifice belonging to a collegiate institution.

5. A room for a corporation or public assembly; as a town-hall; Fanueil Hall in Boston, &c.

6. A collegiate body in the universities of Oxford and Cambridge.



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HALL, n. [L. aula; Heb. a tent, a palace.]

1. In architecture, a large room at the entrance of a house or palace. In the houses of ministers of state, magistrates, &c.,it is the place where they give audience and dispatch business.

2. An edifice in which courts of justice are held; as Westminster Hall, which was originally a royal palace,the kings of England formerly holding their parliaments and courts of judicature in their own dwellings, as is still the practice in Spain.

3. A manor-house, in which courts were formerly held.

4. A college, or large edifice belonging to a collegiate institution.

5. A room for a corporation or public assembly; as a town-hall; Fanueil Hall in Boston, &c.

6. A collegiate body in the universities of Oxford and Cambridge.

HALL, n. [Sax. heal; D. hal or zaal; G. saal; Sw. and Dan. sal; Fr. salle; It. and Sp. sala; L. aula; Gr. αυλη; Sans. aala; Copt. auli; Turk. awli. Qu. Heb. אהל, a tent, Ar. أَهَلَ to marry, and to begin housekeeping, or Heb. Ch. and Syr. היבל, a palace. Qu. are these all of one family? See Salt.]

  1. In architecture, a large room at the entrance of a house or palace. In the houses of ministers of state, magistrates, &c. it is the place where they give audience and dispatch business. Encyc.
  2. An edifice in which courts of justice are held; as Westminster hall, which was originally a royal palace; the kings of England formerly holding their parliaments and courts of judicature in their own dwellings, as is still the practice in Spain. Encyc.
  3. A manor-house, in which courts were formerly held. Addison.
  4. A college, or large edifice belonging to a collegiate institution.
  5. A room for a corporation or public assembly; as, a town-hall; Fanueil Hall in Boston, &c.
  6. A collegiate body in the universities of Oxford and Cambridge. Prideaux.

Hall
  1. A building or room of considerable size and stateliness, used for public purposes; as, Westminster Hall, in London.
  2. The chief room in a castle or manor house, and in early times the only public room, serving as the place of gathering for the lord's family with the retainers and servants, also for cooking and eating. It was often contrasted with the bower, which was the private or sleeping apartment.

    Full sooty was her bower and eke her hall. Chaucer.

    Hence, as the entrance from outside was directly into the hall: (b)

  3. A name given to many manor houses because the magistrate's court was held in the hall of his mansion; a chief mansion house.

    Cowell.
  4. A college in an English university (at Oxford, an unendowed college).
  5. The apartment in which English university students dine in common; hence, the dinner itself; as, hall is at six o'clock.
  6. Cleared passageway in a crowd; -- formerly an exclamation.

    [Obs.] "A hall! a hall!" B. Jonson.

    Syn. -- Entry; court; passage. See Vestibule.

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Hall

HALL, noun [Latin aula; Heb. a tent, a palace.]

1. In architecture, a large room at the entrance of a house or palace. In the houses of ministers of state, magistrates, etc., it is the place where they give audience and dispatch business.

2. An edifice in which courts of justice are held; as Westminster hall which was originally a royal palace, the kings of England formerly holding their parliaments and courts of judicature in their own dwellings, as is still the practice in Spain.

3. A manor-house, in which courts were formerly held.

4. A college, or large edifice belonging to a collegiate institution.

5. A room for a corporation or public assembly; as a town-hall; Fanueil hall in Boston, etc.

6. A collegiate body in the universities of Oxford and Cambridge.

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1. Weight; consequence; a bearing on some interest; that quality of any thing by which it may affect a measure, interest or result. The education of youth is of great importance to a free government. A religious education is of infinite importance to every human being.

2. Weight or consequence in the scale of being.

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Nor bound thy narrow views to things below.

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He believes himself a man of importance.

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