hall vs theater

hall

noun
  • A meeting room. 

  • 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 building providing student accommodation at a university. 

  • A living room. 

  • A place for special professional education, or for conferring professional degrees or licences. 

  • The principal room of a secular medieval building. 

  • A manor house (originally because a magistrate's court was held in the hall of his mansion). 

theater

noun
  • A lecture theatre. 

  • A conspicuous but unproductive display of action. 

  • Any place rising by steps like the seats of a theater. 

  • An operating theatre or locale for human experimentation. 

  • A place or building, consisting of a stage and seating, in which an audience gathers to watch plays, musical performances, public ceremonies, and so on. 

  • A cinema. 

  • Drama or performance as a profession or art form. 

  • A region where a particular action takes place; a specific field of action, usually with reference to war. 

How often have the words hall and theater occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )