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Definition of Great hall
1. Noun. The principal hall in a castle or mansion; can be used for dining or entertainment.
Definition of Great hall
1. Noun. (history architecture) The main room of a palace, castle or large manor house in the Middle Ages, or in a country house of the 16th and early 17th centuries ¹
2. Noun. (history architecture) The principal building of a manor or castle compound ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Great Hall
Literary usage of Great hall
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A survey of London: Written in the Year 1598 by John Stow, William John Thoms (1876)
"In the year 1238, the same King Henry kept his feast of Christmas at Westminster
in the great hall ; so did he in the year 1241, where he placed the legate ..."
2. A survey of London by John Stow (1842)
"In the year 1238, the same King Henry kept his feast of Christmas at Westminster
in the great hall ; so did he in the year 1241, where he placed the legate ..."
3. A Dictionary of the Bible: Comprising Its Antiquities, Biography, Geography by William Smith, John Mee Fuller (1893)
"21), and when go many of the transactions of the Book of Esther took place, was
a square hau No. 4. Restored plan of great hall ot ..."
4. The Encyclopedia Americana: A Library of Universal Knowledge (1918)
"The donjon contained the great hall and principal rooms of state and also, on
the lower or underground story, the prison fortress; whence the term dungeon. ..."
5. A History of Architectural Development by Frederick Moore Simpson (1913)
"The great hall of Xerxes and the hall of the hundred columns are about the same
size (230 feet square), but the former only contained thirty-six columns in ..."
6. Encyclopaedia Britannica, a Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature and edited by Hugh Chisholm (1910)
"This portico led to the great hall, square on plan, whose roof was carried by
sixteen columns in four rows. This hall was lighted by two windows on each ..."
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