great hall

English

A great hall (room)

A great hall (building)

great hall (plural great halls)

(history, architecture) The main room of a palace, castle or large manor house in the Middle Ages, or in a country house of the 16th and early 17th centuries.
Coordinate term: great room
- 2004, Melitta Weiss Adamson, Food in Medieval Times‎^[1], →ISBN, page 156:
  Even in castles and manor houses space was limited, and rooms including the great hall were used for other functions beyond dining.
(history, architecture) The principal building of a manor or castle compound.
Coordinate terms: great house, manor house, country house
- 2005, Philippa Gregory, The Constant Princess‎^[2], →ISBN:
  "Now this" — he indicated the great building facing them, with a handsome flight of steps up to the open door — "this is the great hall."

main room

principal building