town hall

See also: townhall

English

The town hall of Trieste, Italy, with the town square in the foreground

Noun

town hall (plural town halls)

1. A building that houses the local government offices of a town.
   • 1913, Joseph C. Lincoln, chapter 4, in Mr. Pratt's Patients:

     Then he commenced to talk, really talk. and inside of two flaps of a herring's fin he had me mesmerized, like Eben Holt's boy at the town hall show. He talked about the ills of humanity, and the glories of health and Nature and service and land knows what all.

2. (by extension) The town council
3. A meeting to which employees in general are allowed to attend.

   The President plans to speak to a town hall of employees at the Department's headquarters on Monday.

Synonyms

• city hall (larger or specially-incorporated towns); common hall, common house (obsolete); burgh chambers (term used in Scotland)

Translations

a building that houses the local government offices of a town

• Arabic: بَلَدِيَّة f (baladiyya)
• Bavarian: Rathaus
• Belarusian: мэ́рыя f (méryja)
• Breton: ti-kêr (br)
• Catalan: casa de la vila f, casa del comú f, ajuntament (ca) m, casa consistorial f, casa comuna f, casa de la ciutat f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 大會堂／大会堂 (dàhuìtáng), 大会堂 (dàhuìtáng)

• Czech: radnice (cs) f
• Danish: rådhus (da) n
• Dutch: stadhuis (nl) n, raadhuis (nl) n, gemeentehuis (nl) n
• Esperanto: urbdomo
• Finnish: kaupungintalo (fi), kunnantalo (fi)
• French: mairie (fr) f, hôtel de ville (fr) m, maison communale (fr) f (Wallonia), hôtel communal m (Wallonia)
• Georgian: მერია (meria)
• German: Rathaus (de) n, Bürgermeisteramt n, Gemeindehaus (de) n, Stadthaus (de) n
• Greek: δημαρχείο (el) n (dimarcheío)

  Ancient: πρυτανεῖον n (prutaneîon), ἀρχεῖον n (arkheîon)

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• Hungarian: városháza (hu)
• Irish: hall an bhaile m
• Italian: municipio (it) m
• Japanese: 町役場 (machiyakuba), 公会堂 (kōkaidō), 役場 (ja) (yakuba)
• Latin: curia f
• Latvian: rātsnams m
• Lithuanian: rotušė f
• Luxembourgish: Märei f
• Navajo: wááshindoon bighan
• Norwegian: rådhus (no) n
• Polish: ratusz (pl) m
• Portuguese: prefeitura (pt) f
• Russian: мэ́рия (ru) f (mɛ́rija), муниципалите́т (ru) m (municipalitét), ра́туша (ru) f (rátuša)
• Spanish: ayuntamiento (es) m
• Swedish: rådhus (sv) n
• Tagalog: bahay-pamahalaan
• Ukrainian: ме́рія f (mérija)
• Vietnamese: toà thị chính
• Volapük: konsälöp (vo)
• Yiddish: ראָטהויז n (rothoyz)