say it: hawl
hall is a noun meaning "an interior passage or corridor onto which rooms open". It carries 13 recorded senses.
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
“halls of learning”
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for hall come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.