hall

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as in hallway
the entrance room of a building the dinner guests hung their coats in the hall

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as in corridor
a typically long narrow way connecting parts of a building the bedroom is at the end of the hall

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as in lobby
a centrally located room in a building that serves as a gathering or waiting area or as a passageway into the interior from the main hall of the museum, turn left to see the ancient pottery collection and turn right to see the mummies

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as in tower
a large, magnificent, or massive building on your right, you will see Parliament Hall, a splendid example of Georgian architecture

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Recent Examples of hall Medlin escorts me down the hall to the judge’s office, where Skeet is in a meeting with some local men. Mitch Moxley, Rolling Stone, 27 Sep. 2025 Most critically, the movement now had a strong ally in the most rarefied halls of power. Steven Zeitchik, HollywoodReporter, 27 Sep. 2025 At the Barclays, Ellie struts the halls—all eyes are on her and her entourage. Marc Williams, Bon Appetit Magazine, 26 Sep. 2025 In August, as NPR and a court observer - an immigrant advocate - entered the hall, federal enforcement brushed past. Ximena Bustillo, NPR, 26 Sep. 2025 See All Example Sentences for hall
Recent Examples of Synonyms for hall
Noun
  • Surveillance footage from inside the car wash, reviewed by McClatchy News, shows a masked agent wearing a helmet racing down a hallway as Shouhed approaches him.
    Julia Marnin, Sacbee.com, 26 Sep. 2025
  • Williams, 43, took to social media with a video of the decor, a vase holding a cotton plant on a table in the hallway, and asked her followers for their thoughts about the display.
    Natasha Dye, PEOPLE, 26 Sep. 2025
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  • Harnessing the Nile flood and keeping the harvests rolling in was as important to controlling the river corridor as defence against usurpers or an ability to exude pharaonic authority.
    Vanessa Taylor, Big Think, 25 Sep. 2025
  • Ayahuasca Cantina at Xamán Café Walking down the candlelit corridor into Ayahuasca feels like passing through a portal into another world.
    Nathanael Gassett, Bon Appetit Magazine, 23 Sep. 2025
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  • Fewer than 3,000 filled the maroon seats in the auditorium where Turning Point hosted its event.
    Karissa Waddick, USA Today, 27 Sep. 2025
  • However, Brown showed The Post an email confirming the students’ reservation of an auditorium in the ATLAS building.
    Elizabeth Hernandez, Denver Post, 26 Sep. 2025
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  • Picasso looked up the circular column to the lights of the bank lobby above, as if doing calculations in his head.
    Christopher C. Gorham September 29, Literary Hub, 29 Sep. 2025
  • Fitzgerald confirmed that the hotel’s grand staircase, governor’s suite, garage, lower-level lobby and some back-of-house areas were used for filming.
    Abby Hamblin, San Diego Union-Tribune, 29 Sep. 2025
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  • In her race for the Virginia governor’s mansion, Spanberger has stayed laser-focused on affordability, an issue that Republicans capitalized on in 2024 but continue to struggle with in 2025.
    Julia Manchester, The Hill, 30 Sep. 2025
  • The mansion is now the focal point of its upper school campus housing many of its classrooms, offices, a library and meeting spaces.
    Bloomberg, Mercury News, 29 Sep. 2025
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  • The former high school football player who killed four people inside a Manhattan office tower that houses the headquarters of the NFL, and who blamed the league for hiding the dangers of brain injuries, was suffering from the degenerative brain disease CTE, a city medical examiner said Friday.
    CNN Money, CNN Money, 26 Sep. 2025
  • There are no spools of barbed wire atop its fences or looming guard towers to announce its purpose.
    Shirsho Dasgupta, Miami Herald, 26 Sep. 2025
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  • Before Potter signed a two-and-a-half-year contract to manage West Ham in January, a picture leaked online of him meeting their then technical director Tim Steidten in the foyer of a hotel.
    Roshane Thomas, New York Times, 28 Sep. 2025
  • The motor court, which appears to float above the entrance to the subterranean garage, leads to the double-height foyer with ebony polished concrete floors and a floating staircase set against a wall of glass.
    Demetrius Simms, Robb Report, 26 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • As the game enters the fourth quarter, Ellie makes her way through the Barclays main concourse.
    Marc Williams, Bon Appetit Magazine, 26 Sep. 2025
  • Halloween-style may not to be worn upon entry and in concourses but will be permitted when guests are in seats.
    Ed Masley, AZCentral.com, 25 Sep. 2025

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“Hall.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/hall. Accessed 3 Oct. 2025.

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