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Hall, Anthony Michael
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Hall, Bridget
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Hall, Granville Stanley
Hall, Jim
Hall, Marcel
Hall, Monty

Hall, Richard Melville
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Hall has many meanings. It occurs as term typically utilized to refer to many different types of room in a house or a building. This is typically an extended, narrow room which serves strictly as an access to more rooms, similar to the gallery. This nature and severity of hall is too known as the corridor, the passage, or even the hall. As an extension of this, a front entranceway or entrance room of a home is likewise typically known as a hall because it serves as an access to the independent section of the house (too known as the entry hall). Within office buildings and big buildings (theatres, cinemas etc), a entry room is usually referred to as the foyer or the atrium.

In medieval England the independent room of the castle or even manor house was called a great hall. There were similar rooms around more European countries.

the hall is as well a building that is rented out for meetings & social gathering. It can be privately or even even government-owned, like the work hall owned by 1 company utilized for weddings & cotillions (organized & begin per equivalent company in the contractual basis) or the community hall available for rent to anyone.

The term hall may be utilized to refer to the houses of mediaeval kings & lord, & to the bit of kinda building in their totality, for instance a Meeting hall, or the Church hall. Over again, presumptively this is because the building serves as a gathering place & these are typically a big empty space using minimum furnishings & decoration. Numerous buildings at colleges & universities are formally titled "________ Hall", typically existence known as when distinguished alumni or other souls associated by having a school, e.g. "Nassau Hall" at Princeton University.

At colleges in the universities of Oxford and Cambridge, Hall referred to the dining hall for students, sustaining High Table at one end for fellows. Often, at "Formal Hall", gowns are worn for diner during a evening, whereas for "informal Hall" it is does'nt.

Many Livery Companies (e.g., in the City of London) have a Hall that is their headquarters and forum.

In German speaking areas, Hall can too become (the share of) a town title, rather Halle, where a title refers to hall, a celtic word for salt. Hall is a short form of the title of: (we) the mediaeval German town Schwäbisch Hall, where it was its just title before 1933 (two) a Austrian town Hall in Tirol touching Innsbruck, which used to exist as known as Solbad Hall from either 1938 to 1974, (tercet) Hallstatt in Austria which gave its name to the Celtic Hallstatt culture.

See also Hall County Hall crater Hall of fame List of Halls and Walks of Fame Halls of residence List of City Halls List of people with the surname Hall Edwin Hall (Hall effect)