halls
- 1Plural of hall.
The museum's exhibition halls were packed all weekend.
Long marble halls connected the two wings of the palace.
Note
A regular plural that carries every countable meaning of hall: corridors, large meeting rooms, manor houses, the principal rooms of medieval buildings. Here the number is real. Three halls are three rooms or buildings, and they take a plural verb. That sets it apart from the British student-housing use, where living in halls names an arrangement rather than counting buildings.
- 2Residential buildings provided by a university for its students to live in during term.
He made all his closest friends during his time in halls.
The cheapest rooms in halls fill up within days of applications opening.
Note
A British university word that names a way of living more than a set of buildings. It usually takes no article and no number: students move into halls, live in halls, are in halls in their first year. Its natural opposite is digs, the private lodgings students leave for later. Julius Falconer's Tempt Not the Stars (2010) has a student who was "glad to leave for digs."
halls is a form of hall
hall, noun: A large room used for meetings, gatherings, or public events. Full entry
- Forms
- hallhalls plural
- Spelling
- hall → halls: add -s
- Sound
- The ending sounds like /z/.
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