Hall vs. Concourse

A corridor; a hallway.

Example: ‘The drinking fountain was out in the hall.’;

A meeting room.

Example: ‘The hotel had three halls for conferences, and two were in use by the convention.’;

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

Example: ‘The duke lived in a great hall overlooking the sea.’;

A building providing student accommodation at a university.

Example: ‘The student government hosted several social events so that students from different halls would intermingle.’;

The principal room of a secular medieval building.

(obsolete) Cleared passageway through a crowd.

(India) A living room.

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

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.

Example: ‘Full sooty was her bower and eke her hall.’;

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

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

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

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

Cleared passageway in a crowd; - formerly an exclamation.

an interior passage or corridor onto which rooms open;

Example: ‘the elevators were at the end of the hall’;

a large entrance or reception room or area

a large room for gatherings or entertainment;

Example: ‘lecture hall’; ‘pool hall’;

a college or university building containing living quarters for students

the large room of a manor or castle

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

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

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

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

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

a large and imposing house

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

Example: ‘halls of learning’;

a large building for meetings or entertainment

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.

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.

A large group of people; a crowd.

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

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

(obsolete) concurrence; cooperation

A moving, flowing, or running together; confluence.

Example: ‘The good frame of the universe was not the product of chance or fortuitous concourse of particles of matter.’;

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

Example: ‘Amidst the concourse were to be seen the noble ladies of Milan, in gay, fantastic cars, shining in silk brocade.’;

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

Example: ‘The drop will begin to move toward the concourse of the glasses.’;

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

Concurrence; coöperation.

Example: ‘The divine providence is wont to afford its concourse to such proceeding.’;

a large gathering of people

a wide hallway in a building where people can walk

a coming together of people

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.