Hallam

English

Proper noun

Hallam

1. A surname.
   • 2023 October 18, Damien Gayle, “Greta Thunberg charged with public order offence after London oil protest”, in The Guardian‎^[1], archived from the original on 24 January 2025:

     Details of Thunberg’s charge came as Just Stop Oil said its cofounders, Indigo Rumbelow and Roger Hallam, were arrested on Wednesday morning following dawn raids at their homes.

2. Hallamshire, England.
   1. (loosely) Sheffield, England.
   • 1829, Stephen Glover, The History of the County of Derby ... Edited by T. Noble, page 51:

     […] the first or millstone grit appears from under them along a line which may be traced from Little Eaton through or near Belper, Crich, Tansley, Darley, Beeley, Chatsworth, Curbar, Fox-house, and so on to Hallam in Yorkshire.

   • 1996, Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons, Parliamentary Debates (Hansard).: House of Commons official report:

     They have brought so much to Hallam and I am sure that much of my time in this place will be spent on issues concerned with them.

3. A suburb of Melbourne in the City of Casey, south eastern Victoria, Australia
4. A village in Lancaster County, Nebraska, United States.
5. A borough in York County, Pennsylvania, United States.

Derived terms

• Hallamite
• West Hallam

Anagrams

• llamah