A central room or space in ancient Roman homes, open to the sky in the middle; a similar space in other buildings.
An upper chamber of the heart that receives blood from the veins and forces it into a ventricle. In higher vertebrates, the right atrium receives blood from the superior vena cava and inferior vena cava, and the left atrium receives blood from the left and right pulmonary veins.
A cavity inside a porate aperture of a pollen grain formed by the separation of the sexine and nexine layers, widening toward the interior of the grain.
A cavity, entrance, or passage.
A microscopic air sac within a pulmonary alveolus.
Any enclosed body cavity or chamber.
A square hall lit by daylight from above, into which rooms open at one or more levels.
The principal room of a secular medieval building.
A corridor; a hallway.
A meal served and eaten at a college's hall.
A college's canteen, which is often but not always coterminous with a traditional hall.
A meeting room.
A building providing student accommodation at a university.
A living room.
A place for special professional education, or for conferring professional degrees or licences.
A manor house (originally because a magistrate's court was held in the hall of his mansion).