Hall vs Canteen - What's the difference?
hall | canteen |
A corridor; a hallway.
*, chapter=13
, title= A meeting room.
A manor house (originally because a magistrate's court was held in the hall of his mansion).
A building providing student accommodation at a university.
The principal room of a secular medieval building.
(label) Cleared passageway through a crowd.
* (Ben Jonson) (1572-1637)
a small cafeteria or snack bar, especially one in a military establishment, school, or place of work
a temporary or mobile used in an emergency or on a film location etc
a box with compartments for storing eating utensils, silverware etc
a military mess kit
a water bottle used by a soldier or camper
As nouns the difference between hall and canteen
is that hall is a corridor; a hallway while canteen is a small cafeteria or snack bar, especially one in a military establishment, school, or place of work.As a proper noun Hall
is {{surname|British and Scandinavian topographic|from=Middle English}} for someone who lived in or near a hall.hall
English
Noun
(en noun)Mr. Pratt's Patients, passage=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.}}
- (Cowell)
- A hall ! a hall!
