Talk:hall

Missing sense?

What about a dining hall (i.e. canteen) or a pool or snooker hall? None of the definitions quite fits. Equinox ◑ 20:41, 4 August 2015 (UTC)

Also, many buildings (perhaps particularly at universities?) are themselves often called 'Hall'. Though #4 has "A building providing student accommodation at a university" in the US the term is often applied not only to dormitories (such as, to pick a few random examples, Michigan's Bursley Hall or Pittsburgh's Ruskin Hall) but also to classroom/office buildings which do not include dorm rooms (such as UM's Angell Hall, UC Berkeley's LeConte Hall, or Pittsburgh's Bellefield Hall). As particularly relates to the earlier comment above, note the caption to one of the photos at Bellefield Hall: "The concert hall in Bellefield Hall" .... InfiniteBuffalo (talk) 21:44, 7 July 2017 (UTC)

Chambers 1908 has two senses we perhaps don't cover adequately: "an edifice in which courts of justice are held", and "the great room in which the students [at a university?] dine together; hence also the dinner itself". That kind of dining-hall may still be found at Oxford and Cambridge (possibly affiliated with individual colleges) but not usually elsewhere. Equinox ◑ 02:20, 23 July 2019 (UTC)

I agree there is a missing general definition of the word which which would be that of a "large indoors room or space" and from which many of the specific meanings are derived.