[hɔːl], (Noun)

Definitions:
- the room or space just inside the front entrance of a house or flat

- a building or large room used for meetings, concerts, or other events
(e.g: the village hall)

- a large room in a mansion or palace used for receptions and banquets

- a university building containing rooms for students to live in
(e.g: for a brief time they had shared a room in hall)


Phrases:

Origin:
Old English hall, heall (originally denoting a roofed space, located centrally, for the communal use of a tribal chief and his people); of Germanic origin and related to German Halle, Dutch hal, also to Norwegian and Swedish hall