Hall vs Theater - What's the difference?
hall | theater |
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)
A place or building, consisting of a stage and seating, in which an audience gathers to watch plays, musical performances, public ceremonies, and so on.
* (rfdate) :
A region where a particular action takes place; a specific field of action, usually with reference to war.
A lecture theatre.
(medicine) An operating theatre or locale for human experimentation.
(US) A cinema.
Drama or performance as a profession or artform.
As nouns the difference between hall and theater
is that hall is a corridor; a hallway while theater is a place or building, consisting of a stage and seating, in which an audience gathers to watch plays, musical performances, public ceremonies, and so on.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!
Derived terms
* great hall * hall monitor * hall of fame * hall of shametheater
English
Alternative forms
* theatre (standard spelling in all English-speaking countries except the USA)Noun
(en noun)- The theater is not merely the meeting place of all the arts, it is also the return of art to life.
- His grandfather was in the Pacific theater during the war.
- This man is about to die, get him into theater at once!
- We sat in the back row of the theater and threw popcorn at the screen.
- I worked in the theater for twenty-five years.
