Legal Definition and Related Resources of Hall
Meaning of Hall
A public building used either for the meetings of corporations, courts, or employed to some public uses ; as, the city hall, the town hall. Formerly this word denoted the chief mansion or habitation.
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Grammar
This term is a noun.
Etimology of Hall
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Old English heall “spacious roofed residence, house; temple; law-court,” any large place covered by a roof, from Proto-Germanic *hallo “covered place, hall” (source also of Old Saxon, Old High German halla, German halle, Dutch hal, Old Norse höll “hall;” Old English hell, Gothic halja “hell”), from PIE root *kel- (2) “to cover, conceal, save.” Sense of “passageway in a building” evolved 17c., from the time when the doors to private rooms opened onto the large public room of the house. Older sense preserved in town hall, music hall, etc., in use of the word in Britain and Southern U.S. for “manor house,” also “main building of a college” (late 14c.). French halle, Italian alla are from Middle High German. Hall of fame attested by 1786 as an abstract concept; in sporting sense first attested 1901, in reference to Columbia College; the Baseball Hall of Fame opened in 1939. Related: Hall-of-famer.
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