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town hall

American  

noun

  1. a hall or building belonging to a town, used for the transaction of the town's business and often also as a place of public assembly.

town hall British  

noun

  1. the chief building in which municipal business is transacted, often with a hall for public meetings

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Etymology

Origin of town hall

First recorded in 1475–85

Example Sentences

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O’Mahony considers the installation Coachella’s accidental town hall.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 10, 2026

Taylor, who confronted Steyer at the San Diego town hall, said she had not planned to be so vocal.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 6, 2026

A sequel, promising to take players to the "trailer parks and town hall gardens" of America, is currently in the works.

From BBC • Apr. 3, 2026

“The landscape shifted so dramatically that we had to reset, otherwise we were going to be climbing this mountain for more than a decade,” Jacobson said at the town hall.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 1, 2026

Ambrogio Lorenzetti’s Annunciation, 1344, originally in the town hall of Siena, is a very early example of the geometrical representation of space.

From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton

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