Hall vs. Concourse

Hallnoun

A corridor; a hallway.

Hallnoun

A meeting room.

Hallnoun

A manor house (originally because a magistrate's court was held in the hall of his mansion).

Hallnoun

A building providing student accommodation at a university.

Hallnoun

The principal room of a secular medieval building.

Hallnoun

(obsolete) Cleared passageway through a crowd.

Hallnoun

(India) A living room.

Hallnoun

A building or room of considerable size and stateliness, used for public purposes; as, Westminster Hall, in London.

Hallnoun

The chief room in a castle or manor house, and in early times the only public room, serving as the place of gathering for the lord's family with the retainers and servants, also for cooking and eating. It was often contrasted with the bower, which was the private or sleeping apartment.

Hallnoun

A vestibule, entrance room, etc., in the more elaborated buildings of later times.

Hallnoun

A name given to many manor houses because the magistrate's court was held in the hall of his mansion; a chief mansion house.

Hallnoun

A college in an English university (at Oxford, an unendowed college).

Hallnoun

The apartment in which English university students dine in common; hence, the dinner itself; as, hall is at six o'clock.

Hallnoun

Cleared passageway in a crowd; - formerly an exclamation.

Hallnoun

an interior passage or corridor onto which rooms open;

Hallnoun

a large entrance or reception room or area

Hallnoun

a large room for gatherings or entertainment;

Hallnoun

a college or university building containing living quarters for students

Hallnoun

the large room of a manor or castle

Hallnoun

English writer whose novel about a lesbian relationship was banned in Britain for many years (1883-1943)

Hallnoun

United States child psychologist whose theories of child psychology strongly influenced educational psychology (1844-1924)

Hallnoun

United States chemist who developed an economical method of producing aluminum from bauxite (1863-1914)

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United States explorer who led three expeditions to the Arctic (1821-1871)

Hallnoun

United States astronomer who discovered Phobos and Deimos (the two satellites of Mars) (1829-1907)

Hallnoun

a large and imposing house

Hallnoun

a large building used by a college or university for teaching or research;

Hallnoun

a large building for meetings or entertainment

Hall

In architecture, a hall is a relatively large space enclosed by a roof and walls. In the Iron Age and early Middle Ages in northern Europe, a mead hall was where a lord and his retainers ate and also slept.

Concoursenoun

A large open space in or in front of a building where people can gather, particularly one joining various paths, as in a rail station or airport terminal, or providing access to and linking the platforms in a railway terminus.

Concoursenoun

A large group of people; a crowd.

Concoursenoun

The running or flowing together of things; the meeting of things; confluence.

Concoursenoun

An open space, especially in a park, where several roads or paths meet.

Concoursenoun

(obsolete) concurrence; cooperation

Concoursenoun

A moving, flowing, or running together; confluence.

Concoursenoun

An assembly; a gathering formed by a voluntary or spontaneous moving and meeting in one place.

Concoursenoun

The place or point of meeting or junction of two bodies.

Concoursenoun

An open space where several roads or paths meet; esp. an open space in a park where several roads meet.

Concoursenoun

Concurrence; coöperation.

Concoursenoun

a large gathering of people

Concoursenoun

a wide hallway in a building where people can walk

Concoursenoun

a coming together of people

Concourse

A concourse is a place where pathways or roads meet, such as in a hotel, a convention center, a railway station, an airport terminal, a hall, or other space. The term is not limited to places where there are literally pathways or roadways or train tracks joining.