hall
part of speech
noun (hall, halls)
meaning for a pupil
1) A hall is a big room for meetings, concerts, plays or school assemblies. tree →
2) A hall, or hallway, is a passage inside a building, or the space by the front door of a house. tree →
3) Some big buildings are called halls, like a town hall or a hall of residence. tree →
4) A Hall of Fame honours famous people. tree →
sense in the lessons
A place with seats or people counted, rows of chairs, or a floor with area. In everyday life: school hall, assembly, town hall, sports hall. In safety: do not run in the hall. Phrases: «school hall», «town hall», «down the hall», «hall pass».
examples
- The hall has 20 rows of 15 chairs. tree →
- 300 people came to the hall. tree →
- The school hall is 30 m long. tree →
- How many seats are empty in the hall? tree →
- We sang at assembly in the hall. tree →
- The bathroom is down the hall on the left. tree →
- Leave your wet boots in the hall. tree →
- You need a hall pass to leave the class. tree →
- The banqueting hall was in tumult. tree →
note
Rows × chairs per row gives the seats; seats minus people gives the empty seats. Otherwise it is only a place. Homophone: haul (to pull something heavy).
In the corpora
- A polling station is a place, often a school or church hall, where people vote in secret in a small booth.
- The hall is long and low, lit by a row of lamps hanging from the roof, with locked doors all round.
- She sheds "gallons of tears", making a pool about four inches deep that reaches half down the hall.
- The great hall, the glass table and the little door have "vanished completely".
- Round a bend they see Toad Hall: a grand old red-brick house with lawns down to the water.
Trees and pragmatics
Every meaning and example of «hall» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.