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{
"term": "hall",
"partOfSpeech": "noun",
"ox3000": true,
"cefr": "a2",
"definitions": [
{
"senseNumber": 1,
"definition": "a space or passage inside the entrance or front door of a building",
"sensetop": "in a hall",
"labels": "especially in British EnglishNorth American English also",
"cefr": "a2",
"ox3000": true,
"examples": [
{
"text": "Her brother was standing in the front hall.",
"contextForm": "in a hall"
},
{
"text": "She ran into the hall and up the stairs."
}
],
"topics": ["Houses and homes"],
"collocations": {
"adjective": ["entrance", "entry", "front"],
"hall + verb": ["lead to"],
"preposition": [
"across the hall",
"along the hall",
"at the end of the hall"
]
}
},
{
"senseNumber": 2,
"definition": "a passage in a building with rooms down either side",
"sensetop": "down the hallacross the hall",
"labels": "(North American English)",
"cefr": "a2",
"ox3000": true,
"examples": [
{
"text": "I headed for Scott's office down the hall.",
"contextForm": "down the hall"
},
{
"text": "the room across the hall",
"contextForm": "across the hall"
}
],
"collocations": {
"adjective": ["entrance", "entry", "front"],
"hall + verb": ["lead to"],
"preposition": [
"across the hall",
"along the hall",
"at the end of the hall"
]
}
},
{
"senseNumber": 3,
"definition": "a building or large room for public meetings, meals, concerts, etc.",
"sensetop": "in a hall",
"labels": "(British English)",
"cefr": "b1",
"ox3000": true,
"examples": [
{
"text": "a **concert/sports hall**"
},
{
"text": "a banqueting/conference hall"
},
{
"text": "an exhibition hall"
},
{
"text": "There are three **dining halls** on campus."
},
{
"text": "the Royal Albert Hall"
},
{
"text": "The next meeting is in the **community hall** on Tuesday.",
"contextForm": "in a hall"
},
{
"text": "A jumble sale will be held in the **village hall** on Saturday."
},
{
"text": "More than 200 members of the public packed the main hall at the community centre."
},
{
"text": "Our voices echoed round the huge bare hall."
},
{
"text": "The strains of the national anthem filled the hall."
},
{
"text": "at dinner in the mess hall"
},
{
"text": "It's important for a concert hall to have good acoustics."
},
{
"text": "Our stand is located in the main exhibition hall."
}
],
"topics": ["Buildings", "Education"],
"collocations": {
"adjective": ["cavernous", "huge", "spacious"],
"verb + hall": ["crowd", "crowd into", "fill"],
"preposition": ["in the hall", "into the hall", "through the hall"],
"phrases": ["hall of residence"]
}
},
{
"senseNumber": 4,
"definition": "a building for university or college students to live in",
"sensetop": "in hall(s)",
"labels": "(North American English also)",
"examples": [
{
"text": "She's living in hall(s).",
"contextForm": "in hall(s)"
}
],
"collocations": {
"adjective": ["cavernous", "huge", "spacious"],
"verb + hall": ["crowd", "crowd into", "fill"],
"preposition": ["in the hall", "into the hall", "through the hall"],
"phrases": ["hall of residence"]
}
},
{
"senseNumber": 5,
"definition": "a large country house",
"labels": "(British English)",
"examples": [
{
"text": "Haddon Hall"
},
{
"text": "Berrington Hall was built in the late 18th century."
}
]
}
],
"pronunciations": {
"uk": [
{
"pronunciation": "/hɔːl/",
"audio": "ha/hall/hall__gb_2.mp3"
}
],
"us": [
{
"pronunciation": "/hɔːl/",
"audio": "ha/hall/hall__us_1.mp3"
}
]
},
"wordOrigin": "Old English hall, heall (originally denoting a roofed space, located centrally, for the communal use of a tribal chief and his people); of Germanic origin and related to German Halle, Dutch hall, also to Norwegian and Swedish hall."
}