Word Meanings - HALL - Book Publishers vocabulary database

& OHG. halla, G. halle, Icel. hölt, and prob. from a root meaning, to 1. A building or room of considerable size and stateliness, used for public purposes; as, Westminster Hall, in London. The chief room in a castle or manor house, and in early

Additional info about word: HALL

& OHG. halla, G. halle, Icel. hölt, and prob. from a root meaning, to 1. A building or room of considerable size and stateliness, used for public purposes; as, Westminster Hall, in London. 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: A vestibule, entrance room, etc., in the more elaborated buildings of later times. Hence: Any corridor or passage in a building. 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. "A hall! a hall!" B. Jonson. Syn. -- Entry; court; passage. See Vestibule.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of HALL)

• Apartment
• Room
• chamber
• hall
• lodging
• berth
• Salute
• Hall
• compliment
• accost
• welcome
• greet

Related words: (words related to HALL)

• GREETING
  Expression of kindness or joy; salutation at meeting; a compliment from one absent. Write to him . . . gentle adieus and greetings. Shak. Syn. -- Salutation; salute; compliment.
• BERTH
  Convenient sea room. A room in which a number of the officers or ship's company mess and reside. The place where a ship lies when she is at anchor, or at a wharf. 2. An allotted place; an appointment; situation or employment. "He has a good berth."
• CHAMBERING
  Lewdness. Rom. xiii. 13.
• CHAMBERER
  1. One who attends in a chamber; a chambermaid. Chaucer. 2. A civilian; a carpetmonger.
• LODGMENT
  The occupation and holding of a position, as by a besieging party; an instrument thrown up in a captured position; as, to effect a lodgment. (more info) 1. The act of lodging, or the state of being lodged. Any particle which is of size enough to
• CHAMBERED
  Having a chamber or chambers; as, a chambered shell; a chambered gun.
• BERTHA
  A kind of collar or cape worn by ladies.
• ACCOST
  1. To join side to side; to border; hence, to sail along the coast or side of. "So much as accosts the sea." Fuller. 2. To approach; to make up to. Shak. 3. To speak to first; to address; to greet. "Him, Satan thus accosts." Milton.
• LODGEABLE
  1. That may be or can be lodged; as, so many persons are not lodgeable in this village. 2. Capable of affording lodging; fit for lodging in. " The lodgeable area of the earth." Jeffrey.
• APARTMENT HOUSE
  A building comprising a number of suites designed for separate housekeeping tenements, but having conveniences, such as heat, light, elevator service, etc., furnished in common; -- often distinguished in the United States from a flat house.
• LODGING
  1. The act of one who, or that which, lodges. 2. A place of rest, or of temporary habitation; esp., a sleeping apartment; -- often in the plural with a singular meaning. Gower. Wits take lodgings in the sound of Bow. Pope. 3. Abiding place; harbor;
• CHAMBERMAID
  1. A maidservant who has the care of chambers, making the beds, sweeping, cleaning the rooms, etc. 2. A lady's maid. Johnson.
• ACCOSTABLE
  Approachable; affable. Hawthorne.
• BERTHAGE
  A place for mooring vessels in a dock or harbor.
• APARTMENT
  appartare to separate, set apart; all fr. L. ad + pars, partis, part. 1. A room in a building; a division in a house, separated from others by partitions. Fielding. 2. A set or suite of rooms. De Quincey. 3. A compartment. Pope.
• COMPLIMENT
  An expression, by word or act, of approbation, regard, confidence, civility, or admiration; a flattering speech or attention; a ceremonious greeting; as, to send one's compliments to a friend. Tedious waste of time, to sit and hear So many hollow
• LODGER
  One who, or that which, lodges; one who occupies a hired room in another's house.
• SALUTER
  One who salutes.
• BERTHIERITE
  A double sulphide of antimony and iron, of a dark steel-gray color.
• LODGED
  Lying down; -- used of beasts of the chase, as couchant is of beasts of prey.
• UNLODGE
  To dislodge; to deprive of lodgment. Carew.
• STAR-CHAMBER
  An ancient high court exercising jurisdiction in certain cases, mainly criminal, which sat without the intervention of a jury. It consisted of the king's council, or of the privy council only with the addition of certain judges. It could proceed
• INCHAMBER
  To lodge in a chamber. Sherwood.
• COMBUSTION CHAMBER
  A space over, or in front of , a boiler furnace where the gases from the fire become more thoroughly mixed and burnt. The clearance space in the cylinder of an internal combustion engine where the charge is compressed and ignited.
• CONGREET
  To salute mutually.
• RESALUTE
  To salute again.
• AIR CHAMBER
  1. A chamber or cavity filled with air, in an animal or plant. 2. A cavity containing air to act as a spring for equalizing the flow of a liquid in a pump or other hydraulic machine.