Hall vs. Concourse — What's the Difference?

In architecture, a hall is a relatively large space enclosed by a roof and walls. In the Iron Age and early Middle Ages in northern Europe, a mead hall was where a lord and his retainers ate and also slept.

A concourse is a place where pathways or roads meet, such as in a hotel, a convention center, a railway station, an airport terminal, a hall, or other space. The term is not limited to places where there are literally pathways or roadways or train tracks joining.

A corridor or passageway in a building.

A large open space for the gathering or passage of crowds, as in an airport.

A large entrance room or vestibule in a building; a lobby.

A broad thoroughfare.

A building for public gatherings or entertainments.

A great crowd; a throng.

The large room in which such events are held.

The act of coming, moving, or flowing together.

A building used for the gatherings and social activities of a church, fraternal order, or other organization.

A large open space in or in front of a building where people can gather, particularly one joining various paths, as in a rail station or airport terminal, or providing access to and linking the platforms in a railway terminus.

A building belonging to a school, college, or university that provides classroom, dormitory, or dining facilities.

Airport terminal.

A large room in such a building.

A large group of people; a crowd.

The group of students using such a building

The running or flowing together of things; the meeting of things; confluence.

Chiefly British A meal served in such a building.

An open space, especially in a park, where several roads or paths meet.

The main house on a landed estate.

(obsolete) concurrence; cooperation

The castle or house of a medieval monarch or noble.

A moving, flowing, or running together; confluence.

The principal room in such a castle or house, used for dining, entertaining, and sleeping.

An assembly; a gathering formed by a voluntary or spontaneous moving and meeting in one place.

A corridor; a hallway.

The place or point of meeting or junction of two bodies.

A meeting room.

An open space where several roads or paths meet; esp. an open space in a park where several roads meet.

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

Concurrence; coöperation.

A building providing student accommodation at a university.

A large gathering of people

The principal room of a secular medieval building.

A wide hallway in a building where people can walk

(obsolete) Cleared passageway through a crowd, as for dancing.

A coming together of people

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

(India) A living room.

(Oxbridge) A college's canteen, which is often but not always coterminous with a traditional hall.

(Oxbridge slang) A meal served and eaten at a college's hall.

A building or room of considerable size and stateliness, used for public purposes; as, Westminster Hall, in London.

The chief room in a castle or manor house, and in early times the only public room, serving as the place of gathering for the lord's family with the retainers and servants, also for cooking and eating. It was often contrasted with the bower, which was the private or sleeping apartment.

A vestibule, entrance room, etc., in the more elaborated buildings of later times.

A name given to many manor houses because the magistrate's court was held in the hall of his mansion; a chief mansion house.

A college in an English university (at Oxford, an unendowed college).

The apartment in which English university students dine in common; hence, the dinner itself; as, hall is at six o'clock.

Cleared passageway in a crowd; - formerly an exclamation.

An interior passage or corridor onto which rooms open;

A large entrance or reception room or area

A large room for gatherings or entertainment;

A college or university building containing living quarters for students

The large room of a manor or castle

English writer whose novel about a lesbian relationship was banned in Britain for many years (1883-1943)

United States child psychologist whose theories of child psychology strongly influenced educational psychology (1844-1924)

United States chemist who developed an economical method of producing aluminum from bauxite (1863-1914)

United States explorer who led three expeditions to the Arctic (1821-1871)

United States astronomer who discovered Phobos and Deimos (the two satellites of Mars) (1829-1907)

A large and imposing house

A large building used by a college or university for teaching or research;

A large building for meetings or entertainment