A hall is an interior space for a building or a house. It’s used to connect rooms as an area to walk through, and a hall is used as a place for social or communal activity.
A dining hall is a place where people eat.
A mess hall is a place for people in the military to eat when they are on a military base.
The halls of Congress are places where members of the U.S. House or Representatives and the Senate meet.
There are halls inside a house or an apartment. Residents of the house use the hall to enter or exit rooms.
On college campuses, the word "hall" is part of the name of a dormitory.
Peter lives in Schneider Hall.
Melissa shares a room with a roommate at Farwell Hall.
Farwell Hall
A hallway is usually a long corridor that people must walk through in order to get to individual rooms:
In American schools, the hallways are very busy places as students walk from one classroom to another.
The hallways are places where students have lockers. Hallways are also places where students meet and greet each other during the day.
