anteroom
antechamber
entrance hall
hall foyer
lobby
vestibule | a large entrance or reception room or area |
| assembly hall | a hall where many people can congregate |
ballroom
dance hall
dance palace | large room used mainly for dancing |
| beer hall | a hall or barroom featuring beer and (usually) entertainment |
billiard room
billiard saloon
billiard parlor
billiard parlour
billiard hall | a room in which billiards is played |
| ceiling | the overhead upper surface of a covered space, he hated painting the ceiling |
| city hall | a building that houses administrative offices of a municipal government |
| concert hall | a hall where concerts are given |
| dining-hall | a large room at a college or university, used especially for dining |
dormitory
dorm
residence hall
hall student residence | a college or university building containing living quarters for students |
exhibition hall
exhibition area | a large hall for holding exhibitions |
| great hall | the principal hall in a castle or mansion, can be used for dining or entertainment |
| hall | a large building for meetings or entertainment |
| hall | a large room for gatherings or entertainment, lecture hall, pool hall |
| hall | a large building used by a college or university for teaching or research, halls of learning |
| Hall of Fame | a building containing trophies honoring famous people |
| hall of residence | a university dormitory |
hallway
hall | an interior passage or corridor onto which rooms open, the elevators were at the end of the hall |
| Independence Hall | the building in Philadelphia where the Declaration of Independence was signed |
manor hall
hall | the large room of a manor or castle |
mansion
mansion house
manse hall residence | a large and imposing house |
mess
mess hall | a (large) military dining room where service personnel eat or relax |
music hall
vaudeville theater
vaudeville theatre | a theater in which vaudeville is staged |
| National Baseball Hall of Fame | a Hall of Fame and museum in Cooperstown, New York, honoring great baseball players |
| study hall | a classroom reserved for study |
| town hall | a government building that houses administrative offices of a town government |
| ceiling | (meteorology) altitude of the lowest layer of clouds |
| ceiling | maximum altitude at which a plane can fly (under specified conditions) |
| absolute ceiling | the maximum altitude at which an airplane can maintain horizontal flight |
combat ceiling
service ceiling | altitude above which a plane cannot climb faster than a given rate |
ceiling
roof
cap | an upper limit on what is allowed, he put a ceiling on the number of women who worked for him, there was a roof on salaries, they established a cap for prices |
| glass ceiling | a ceiling based on attitudinal or organizational bias in the work force that prevents minorities and women from advancing to leadership positions |
| hall pass | written permission from a teacher for a student to be out the classroom and in the halls of the school |
vaudeville
music hall | a variety show with songs and comic acts etc. |
Tammany Hall
Tammany Society
Tammany | a political organization within the Democratic Party in New York City (late 's and early 's) seeking political control by corruption and bossism |
| hiring hall | a union-operated placement office where jobs are allotted to applicants according to seniority or rotation |
doorkeeper
doorman
door guard
hall porter
porter gatekeeper
ostiary | someone who guards an entrance |
Hall
Asaph Hall | United States astronomer who discovered Phobos and Deimos (the two satellites of Mars) (-) |
| Hall Charles Francis Hall | United States explorer who led three expeditions to the Arctic (-) |
| Hall Charles Martin Hall | United States chemist who developed an economical method of producing aluminum from bauxite (-) |
Hall G. Stanley Hall
Granville Stanley Hall | United States child psychologist whose theories of child psychology strongly influenced educational psychology (-) |
Hall Radclyffe Hall
Marguerite Radclyffe Hall | English writer whose novel about a lesbian relationship was banned in Britain for many years (-) |
McCormick Cyrus McCormick
Cyrus Hall McCormick | United States inventor and manufacturer of a mechanical harvester (-) |
Hall's honeysuckle
Lonicera japonica halliana | a variety of Japanese honeysuckle that grows like a vine, established as an aggressive escape in southeastern United States |
debt limit
debt ceiling | the maximum borrowing power of a governmental entity |
| national debt ceiling | a limit set by Congress beyond which the national debt cannot rise, periodically raised by Congress |
| study hall | a period of time during the school day that is set aside for study |
e flip one's lid
blow up
throw a fit
hit the roof
hit the ceiling
have kittens
have a fit
combust
blow one's stack
fly off the handle
flip one's wig
lose one's temper
blow a fuse
go ballistic | get very angry and fly into a rage, The professor combusted when the student didn't know the answer to a very elementary question, Spam makes me go ballistic |