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.

A vestibule, entrance room, etc., in the more elaborated buildings of later times.

Any corridor or passage in a building.

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.

'Hall' refers both to the meals taken in Hall and to the magnificent College Hall itself.

Dining room where you eat, surrounded by portraits of old members and previous Masters.