Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun The meeting hall of a guild.
  • noun A town hall.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun See gildhall.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun The hall where a guild or corporation usually assembles; a townhall.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun A hall where a guild or corporation usually assembles.
  • noun town hall

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun the hall of a guild or corporation

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Examples

  • Near the school is the guildhall, which is used for religious services, meetings, and entertainments.

    American Adventures A Second Trip 'Abroad at home' Julian Street 1913

  • You respawned back in town at your "guildhall" (a class-specific spawn point and levelling trainer) and had to do a "corpse run" to get back to your body naked and reequip your gear.

    Raph's Website 2009

  • Legend has it that a Latvian merchant, denied access to a German-only guild, affixed two feline sculptures to his roof, tails up, derrières facing the guildhall.

    Little Country, Big Impact Kathy Reichs 2011

  • He smelled again the smell of the harbour, a mixture of rotting seaweed and petrol; he heard the musical clock on the tower of the old guildhall, and saw the narrow streets with overhanging bays, from the lattices of which the harbour prostitutes hung their washing during the day.

    Autumn Thomas Plastino Martin 2010

  • For the first time, the public will be able to visit the triple-chambered cellar under the ruins of what is now called Blackfriars Barn, but which is believed to have been a guildhall.

    Winchelsea town's foundations are explored 2007

  • For the first time, the public will be able to visit the triple-chambered cellar under the ruins of what is now called Blackfriars Barn, but which is believed to have been a guildhall.

    Archive 2007-06-01 2007

  • I'm gonna divide the guild bank and everything else between Ferrex and Porrux, and retire to the guildhall!

    Archive 2007-09-01 Bardiac 2007

  • In many cities they lived together on the same street, or in the same quarter, around their guildhall, where they frequently assembled to discuss their common interests, to inquire into the observance of the statutes, or share in the joys of large and fraternal banquets.

    The Social Order Before and After the Protestant Reformation 2007

  • I'm gonna divide the guild bank and everything else between Ferrex and Porrux, and retire to the guildhall!

    Gorboduc, the MMORPG Version Bardiac 2007

  • The guildhall of the town, called by them the moot hall, to which is annexed the town gaol.

    A Tour through the Eastern Counties of England, 1722 2003

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