Hall vs. Room

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)

Hallnoun

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.

Roomadjective

Wide; spacious; roomy.

Roomadverb

Far; at a distance; wide in space or extent.

Roomadverb

(nautical) Off from the wind.

Roomnoun

Opportunity or scope (to do something).

Roomnoun

(uncountable) Space for something, or to carry out an activity. t

Roomnoun

(archaic) A particular portion of space.

Roomnoun

Sufficient space for or to do something.

Roomnoun

(nautical) A space between the timbers of a ship's frame.

Roomnoun

(obsolete) Place; stead.

Roomnoun

(countable) A separate part of a building, enclosed by walls, a floor and a ceiling. t

Roomnoun

(countable) With possessive pronoun: one's bedroom.

Roomnoun

(in the plural) A set of rooms inhabited by someone; one's lodgings.

Roomnoun

The people in a room.

Roomnoun

(mining) An area for working in a coal mine. s

Roomnoun

(caving) A portion of a cave that is wider than a passage. s

Roomnoun

A forum or chat room.

Roomnoun

Place or position in society; office; rank; post, sometimes when vacated by its former occupant.

Roomnoun

Furniture sufficient to furnish a room.

Roomverb

(intransitive) To reside, especially as a boarder or tenant.

Roomverb

(transitive) To assign to a room; to allocate a room to.

Roomnoun

Unobstructed spase; space which may be occupied by or devoted to any object; compass; extent of place, great or small; as, there is not room for a house; the table takes up too much room.

Roomnoun

A particular portion of space appropriated for occupancy; a place to sit, stand, or lie; a seat.

Roomnoun

Especially, space in a building or ship inclosed or set apart by a partition; an apartment or chamber.

Roomnoun

Place or position in society; office; rank; post; station; also, a place or station once belonging to, or occupied by, another, and vacated.

Roomnoun

Possibility of admission; ability to admit; opportunity to act; fit occasion; as, to leave room for hope.

Roomverb

To occupy a room or rooms; to lodge; as, they arranged to room together.

Roomadjective

Spacious; roomy.

Roomnoun

an area within a building enclosed by walls and floor and ceiling;

Roomnoun

space for movement;

Roomnoun

opportunity for;

Roomnoun

the people who are present in a room;

Roomverb

live and take one's meals at or in;

Room

In a building, a room is any space enclosed within a number of walls to which entry is possible only by a door or other dividing structure that connects it either to a passageway, to another room, or to the outdoors, that is large enough for several persons to move about, and whose size, fixtures, furnishings, and sometimes placement within the building support the activity to be conducted in it.