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Hall

The English word “Hall” has 6 meanings listed here.

proper noun

  1. Former name of Las Lomas, a CDP in California.
  2. An unincorporated community in Morgan County, Indiana.
  3. An unincorporated community in Granite County, Montana.
  4. An unincorporated community in Clark County, Washington.
  5. An unincorporated community in Barbour County, West Virginia.

noun

  1. Hall class, a class of steam locomotive used on the GWR.

Etymology

* As an English, Scottish, Irish, German, Norwegian, Danish, Swedish surname: all from the noun hall. The name was likely reinforced by similar sounding words such as Swedish häll (“rock slab”). * As a Chinese surname, variant Romanization of 何, 賀 /贺 (hè), see He. ** (locomotive): The locomotives were named after English and Welsh country houses with 'Hall' in their titles. ** (British and…

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