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Collocations for hall - noun

1. inside the front entrance of a house/building

ADJ.

entrance | reception | narrow | dark, darkened, unlit
He hurried them along the narrow, dark hall.

VERB + HALL

lead to
The hall led to a locked door.

PREP.

across the ~
the room across the hall
along the ~, at/to the end of the ~, down the ~
There were strange noises coming from the room down the hall.
in the ~

2. building/large room

ADJ.

cavernous, huge, spacious, vast | magnificent | bare
Our voices echoed round the huge bare hall.
gloomy | cold, draughty | crowded, packed | main
More than 200 members of the public packed the main hall at the community centre.
baronial, great | assembly, conference, congress, meeting | booking, ticket | banquet, banqueting, dining | concert, dance, examination, exhibition, lecture, market, sports | church, city, communal, community, council, county, parish, public, school, village | bingo, pool, snooker

VERB + HALL

crowd into, fill, pack
The strains of the national anthem filled the hall.

PREP.

in the ~, into the ~, through the ~
His voice echoed through the hall.

PHRASES

hall of residence
Most first-year students live in the halls of residence.

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