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Definition of City hall
1. Noun. A building that houses administrative offices of a municipal government.
Definition of City hall
1. Noun. The building that houses a city's government. ¹
2. Noun. (figuratively) The city government; government in general. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of City Hall
Literary usage of City hall
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The History of Political Parties in the Province of New York, 1760-1776 by Carl Lotus Becker (1908)
"city hall (Des Moines) 10:357-9. Ap. '09. Des Moines Plan followed by ...
city hall (Des Moines) 10:405. Je. '09. Danger of electing the Wrong Men. ..."
2. The San Francisco Earthquake and Fire of April 18, 1906: And Their Effects by Grove Karl Gilbert, Joseph Austin Holmes, Richard Lewis Humphrey, John Stephen Sewell, Frank Soulé (1907)
"The new city hall in San Francisco (PI. XXXI), together with the hall of ...
The brickwork in the city hall was made of a very good quality of common bricks ..."
3. Annual Report by Fairmount Park Art Association (1903)
"Something was said about the amount of money expended on the city hall. You know,
as I do, the stories that were afloat some fifteen or twenty years ago. ..."
4. The Literary Digest History of the World War: Compiled from Original and (1919)
"Landing at the Battery, Mr. Balfour was taken to the city hall in a car, ...
Just inside the entrance to the city hall Mayor Mitchel met and greeted ..."
5. Publishers Weekly by Publishers' Board of Trade (U.S.), Book Trade Association of Philadelphia, American Book Trade Union, Am. Book Trade Association, R.R. Bowker Company (1892)
"1492 VIEW OF BROAD STREET AND THE city hall. " The most important literary event
of the season."—NEW YORK ADVERTISER. MEMORIAL HISTORY OF THE CITY OF NEW ..."
6. Journal by New York (State). Legislature. Senate, United States Congress. Senate (1905)
"... and for and in consideration of the increase in value to the city hall park
and property and the increase in value of other property in the city in the ..."
7. A History of the National Capital from Its Foundation Through the Period of by Wilhelmus Bogart Bryan (1916)
"For the city hall stood as it had for more than a quarter of a century, " little
better in appearance than one of the ancient ruins of the old world. ..."
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