{
    "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."
}