A hallway at the Royal York Hotel

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Several things are commonly known as Halls or halls. For the development of meaning of the word 'hall', see Hall (concept). The meanings attributed to the word hall have varied over the centuries as social practices have changed

A hall is fundamentally a relatively large space enclosed by a roof and walls. In the Iron Age, a mead hall was such a simple building and was the residence of a lord and his retainers. This article is about the archaeological period known as the Iron Age for the mythological Iron Age see Ages of Man. ancient Scandinavia a Mead hall or Feasting hall was initially simply a large building with a single room Later, rooms were partitioned from it, so that today the hall of a house is the space inside the front door from which the rooms are reached.

Thus:

A hallway in a New Jersey Catholic High School

• Deriving from the above, a hall is often the term used to designate a British or Irish country house. New Jersey ( is a state in the Mid-Atlantic and Northeastern regions of the United States. Catholic is an Adjective derived from the Greek adjective '' / 'katholikos' meaning "whole" or "complete". The English country house is generally accepted as a large House or Mansion, once in the ownership of an individual who also usually owned another Great
• In later medieval Europe, the main room of a castle or manor house was the great hall. A castle is a defensive structure seen as one of the main symbols of the Middle Ages. A manor house or fortified manor-house is a Country house, which has historically formed the administrative centre of a manor (see Manorialism A great hall was the main room of a royal Palace, a Nobleman 's Castle or a large Manor house in the Middle Ages, and
• Where the hall inside the front door of a house is elongated, it may be called a passage, or hallway. The corresponding space upstairs is a landing.
• In a medieval building, the hall was where the fire was kept. With time, its functions as dormitory, kitchen, parlour and so on were divided off to separate rooms or, in the case of the kitchen, a separate building. Dormitory typically refers in the United States to residence halls which are sleeping quarters or entire buildings primarily providing sleeping and residential quarters for For the Banana Yashimoto novel see Kitchen (novel A kitchen, is a room or part of a room (sometimes called "kitchen Parlour (or parlor) from the French word parloir, from parler ("to speak" denotes an "audience chamber"

On the same principle:

• Many buildings at colleges and universities are formally titled "_______ Hall", typically being named after the person who endowed it, for example, King's Hall, Cambridge. A university is an institution of Higher education and Research, which grants Academic degrees in a variety of subjects A financial endowment is a Transfer of Money or Property donated to an Institution, usually with the stipulation that it be invested King's Hall was once one of the constituent colleges of Cambridge, founded in 1317, the second after Peterhouse. Others, such as Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford, commemorate respected people. Lady Margaret Hall is one of the constituent colleges of the University of Oxford in England, located at the end of Norham Gardens Between these in age, Nassau Hall at Princeton University began as the single building of the then college. Nassau Hall (or Old Nassau) is the oldest building at Princeton University in the Borough of Princeton, New Jersey ( USA) Princeton University is a private Coeducational research university located in Princeton, New Jersey. College ( Latin collegium) is a term most often used today to denote an Educational Institution. In medieval origin, these were the halls in which the members of the university lived together during term time. In many cases, some aspect of this community remains. In biological terms a community is a group of interacting Organisms sharing an environment.
• At colleges in the universities of Oxford and Cambridge, Hall is the dining hall for students, with High Table at one end for fellows. The University of Oxford (informally "Oxford University" or simply "Oxford" located in the city of Oxford, Oxfordshire, England is the The University of Cambridge (often Cambridge University) located in Cambridge, England, is the second-oldest university in the At Oxford, Cambridge, and Durham colleges - and other more traditional academic institutions - High Table is a table for the use of Fellows Typically, at "Formal Hall", gowns are worn for dinner during the evening, whereas for "informal Hall" they are not. Formal Hall or Formal Meal is the traditional meal held at some of the older universities in the United Kingdom at which students dress in Formal attire Academic dress or academical dress is traditional Clothing for academic settings primarily tertiary and sometimes secondary
• Many Livery Companies (e. g. , in the City of London) have a Hall that is their headquarters and meeting place. For London as a whole see the main article London. The City of London is a geographically

Similarly:

• A hall is also a building consisting largely of a principal room, that is rented out for meetings and social affairs. It may be privately or government-owned, such as a function hall owned by one company used for weddings and cotillions (organized and run by the same company on a contractual basis) or a community hall available for rent to anyone.

Firehall (London Ontario) 1923

Following a line of similar development:

• In office buildings and larger buildings (theatres, cinemas etc), the entrance hall is generally known as the foyer (the French for fire-place). An office is generally a room or other area in which people work, but may also denote a position within an Organization with specific duties attached Theatre (or theater, see spelling differences) is the branch of the Performing arts defined by Bernard Beckerman as what "occurs when one Cinemaaustraliajpg|thumb|A movie theater in Australia ]]A movie theater, movie theatre, picture theatre or cinema is a venue A foyer is a safe, large and vast Room or complex of rooms in a Theatre, Opera, Concert hall, Showroom, cinema The atrium, a name sometimes used in public buildings for the entrance hall, was the central courtyard of a Roman house. In modern Architecture, an atrium (plural atria is a large open space often several stories high and having a glazed roof and/or large windows often situated within an

Derived from the residential meanings of the word:

• Hall is also a surname of people, one of whose ancestors lived in a hall as distinct from one such as David M. Cote, whose ancestor will have lived in a cote, a much humbler place shared with the livestock. Hall is a Family name of English origin and is used to signify someone who lived in or worked in a hall or manor house A surname is a name added to a Given name and is part of a Personal name. David M Cote is chairman and CEO of Honeywell. He was first elected president CEO and a member of the Board of Honeywell in February 2002 and became chairman of Livestock is the term used to refer (singularly or plurally to a Domesticated Animal intentionally reared in an agricultural setting to produce such as Food

Association with salt

From a completely separate derivation:

A Hall is a brand of bitter (beer) made in Germany and sold worldwide, mainly across America.

• In German speaking areas, Hall (with a short a) can also form part of a town name, like Halle, where the name refers to hall, the Celtic word for salt (compare Welsh halen or Breton holen or Cornish holan). Halle is the largest city in the German State of Saxony-Anhalt. Welsh ( cy Cymraeg or cy y Gymraeg, kəmˈrɑːɨɡ and {{IPA|[ə ɡəmˈrɑːɨɡ]}}, is a member of the Brythonic branch of Celtic In this connection, Hall is the short form of the name of:

1. the medieval German town Schwäbisch Hall, where Hall was its whole name prior to 1933
2. the Austrian town Hall in Tirol near Innsbruck, which used to be called Solbad Hall from 1938 to 1974,
3. Hallstatt in Austria which gave its name to the Celtic Hallstatt culture. Schwäbisch Hall (or Hall for short is a town in the German state of Baden-Württemberg; it is the capital of the District of Austria (Österreich ( officially the Republic of Austria (Republik Österreich Hall in Tirol is a city in Tyrol, Austria. It is situated 10 km east of Innsbruck in the Innsbruck-Land district at, with a population of Innsbruck is the capital city of the federal state of Tyrol in western Austria. Hallstatt, Upper Austria is a village in the Salzkammergut, a region in Austria. Austria (Österreich ( officially the Republic of Austria (Republik Österreich The Hallstatt culture was the predominant

Sir Charles Hallé (originally Karl Halle) lent his name to the Hallé Orchestra. WikipediaWikiProject Classical music#Biographical_infoboxes --> Charles Hallé ( 11 April 1819 &ndash 25 October The Hallé is a Symphony orchestra based in Manchester, England, it claims the status of "the oldest professional orchestra" in the His forbears were probably associated with the German town of Halle. The accent was added to his name in order to assist English-speakers in pronouncing the word.

In the ancient world, the Celts were neighbours of the Greeks whose word for salt was halos (`αλοσ). While European science was developing, some branches of it adopted the Greek language as the source of its terminology. We therefore have words like halogen, halide, halotrichite and halocarbon. Abundance Owing to their high Reactivity, the halogens are found in the environment only in compounds or as Ions Halide ions and oxoanions A halide is a Binary compound, of which one part is a Halogen Atom and the other part is an element or radical that is less Halotrichite, also known as feather alum, is a highly hydrated sulfate of Aluminium and Iron. Halocarbon compounds are Chemicals in which one or more Carbon Atoms are linked by Covalent bonds with one or more Halogen Atoms