billiard hall
- noun
- /ˈbɪljərd hɔl/
:
salón de billar
- The new billiard hall in town offers tournaments every Friday night.
Examples
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Dear Miss Preston, if you don't want the sheriff to come and haul your grandpa into state's prison, you better come and see me at the billiard hall right away.
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Last Saturday, we spent the afternoon playing pool at the billiard hall downtown.
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After school, my friends and I often hang out at the local billiard hall to practice our cues.
Synonyms
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4.1
A room with tables where people play pool
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3.7
A room with a table for playing pool
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4.9
A room where people play games on a long table with balls and sticks, like pool
A room where people play billiards on tables
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning 'a room where people play billiards' is directly and transparently derived from combining 'billiard' (related to the game of billiards) with 'hall' (a room or public space). This adjective+noun composition follows a regular, cross-linguistic pattern, so a B1 learner who knows both constituents would readily infer the MWE's meaning.
Etymology
Billiard hall comes from the words billiard, the game with balls and a stick, and hall, a large room where people meet. So it means 'a place where people go to play billiards'.