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hall the castle or house of a medieval king or noble The first known use: before the 12th century |
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4 Letters, 1 Syllable |
hall |
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3 Phonemes |
h aw l |
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onset, rime |
h all |
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Morpheme |
hall |
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Sentence Examples The bathroom is down the hall. Her office is at the end of the hall. I'll meet you in the front hall. The front door opens onto a large hall. We rented a hall for the wedding reception. |
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Common Phrases (you) can't fight city hall You cannot defeat or prevail over a bureaucratic system or its rules. go fight city hall One cannot defeat or prevail over a bureaucratic system or its rules (despite the connotation of the phrase as an encouragement of action). hall of mirrors A warped, distorted version, vision, or representation of reality. |
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Related Words Sound the same but are spelled differently.
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Collocations The habitual juxtaposition of a particular word with another word or words with a frequency greater than chance.
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Neighborhood
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