Hallway vs Hall - What's the difference?
hallway | hall |
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)
As nouns the difference between hallway and hall
is that hallway is a corridor in a building that connects rooms 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.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!
