town hall

American  

noun

town halls plural

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.

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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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Other Word Forms

Noun Inflected Forms

• town halls
  plural

Etymology

Origin of town hall

First recorded in 1475–85

Example Sentences

See Examples For:

town hall

At town hall meetings, McRae is trying to sound the alarm and rally other local ranchers to speak out against new data center projects.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 11, 2026

It was the first public town hall about the Lineage warehouse fire, which burned for nearly a week and left 85 million pounds of frozen food rotting across the street from residential neighborhoods.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 10, 2026

The town hall was a chance for someone, anyone, to take the lead and say something that would reassure a furious Eastside.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 10, 2026

Spence’s first inkling that chili would be an issue came in his first town hall in Houston after the deal was announced.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 6, 2026

The second refugee camp, farther inside the town, was smaller, smelled better, and used to be a town hall.

From "Half of a Yellow Sun" by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Related Words

• city center
• courthouse
• town house