hall – English noun declension

English noun forms of hall

Noun: hall
Singularhall
Pluralhalls

Sample Sentences

  • The drinking fountain was out in the hall.
  • We tiptoed into the house, up the stairs and along the hall into the room where the Professor had been spending so much of his time. [1913, Joseph C[rosby] Lincoln, chapter XIII, in Mr. Pratt’s Patients, New York, N.Y.; London: D[aniel] Appleton and Company, →OCLC:]
  • The hotel had three halls for conferences, and two were in use by the convention.
  • The duke lived in a great hall overlooking the sea.
  • But Kate, the prettiest Kate in Christendome, Kate of Kate-hall. [c. 1590–1592 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Taming of the Shrew”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene i]:]
  • The student government hosted several social events so that students from different halls would intermingle.
  • Then cry, a hall, a hall! Come, father Rosin, with your fiddle now. [1633 (first performance), Ben Jonson, “A Tale of a Tub. A Comedy […]”, in The Works of Beniamin Jonson, […] (Third Folio), London: […] Thomas Hodgkin, for H[enry] Herringman, E. Brewster, T. Bassett, R[ichard] Chiswell, M. Wotton, G. Conyers, published 1692, →OCLC, (please specify the act number in uppercase Roman numerals, and the scene number in lowercase Roman numerals):]
  • a Divinity Hall; Apothecaries' Hall

Etymology

1. Inherited from Middle English halle (“hall”), from Old English heall (“hall, dwelling, house, palace, temple, law-court”), from Proto-West Germanic *hallu (“hall”), from Proto-Germanic *hallō (“hall”), from Proto-Indo-European *ḱel- (“to hide, conceal”).
2. Cognate with Scots hall, haw (“hall”), Dutch hal (“hall”), German Halle (“hall”), Danish hal (“hall, sports centre”), Faroese høll (“hall, palace”), Icelandic höll (“palace”), Norwegian hall (“hall”), Swedish hall (“hall”), Latin cella (“room, cell”), Sanskrit शाला (śā́lā, “house, mansion, hall”). Doublet of cell and cella. See: Middle English Nouns 'halle', Middle English Nouns 'halle', Old English Nouns 'heall', Dutch Nouns 'hal', German Nouns 'Halle', Danish Nouns 'hal', Faroese Nouns 'høll', Icelandic Nouns 'höll', Swedish Nouns 'hall', Latin Nouns 'cella'.

Verbs referencing "hall"

Polish Nouns hol, Danish Nouns hall, French Nouns hall, Norwegian Nynorsk Nouns hall, Swedish Nouns hall, Dutch Nouns hal, German Nouns Halle, Russian Nouns холл, Icelandic Nouns höll, Faroese Nouns høll, Bulgarian Nouns хол, Zulu Nouns ihholo.