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.
A name given to many manor houses because
the magistrate's court was held in the hall of his mansion; a chief
mansion house.
A college in an English university (at
Oxford, an unendowed college).
The apartment in which English university
students dine in common; hence, the dinner itself; as, hall is
at six o'clock.
Cleared passageway in a crowd; -- formerly
an exclamation.
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