Dormitory vs Hall - What's the difference?
dormitory | hall |
A room containing a number of beds (and often some other furniture and/or utilities) for sleeping, often applied to student and backpacker accommodation of this kind. Common abbreviation: dorm
A building or part of a building which houses students, soldiers, monks etc. who sleep there and use communal further facilities.
Short for dormitory town, a suburban or rural settlement housing city workers
(Dormitory town)
A corridor; a hallway.
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, 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)
As nouns the difference between dormitory and hall
is that dormitory is a room containing a number of beds (and often some other furniture and/or utilities) for sleeping, often applied to student and backpacker accommodation of this kind. Common abbreviation: dorm while hall is a corridor; a hallway.As a proper noun Hall is
{{surname|British and Scandinavian topographic|from=Middle English}} for someone who lived in or near a hall.dormitory
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(wikipedia dormitory)Noun
(dormitories)Synonyms
* Common abbreviation: dormSee also
* dorter, dortoir, dortourExternal links
* * *hall
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Noun
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- (Cowell)
- A hall ! a hall!