Definition of "study hall" []

• A schoolroom reserved for study. (noun)
• A period set aside for study. (noun)

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• "I tried to think, to remember evenings when I had come from the study hall to find Gráinne and Father Moorehouse alone in that room."
• "I had work to do, finishing my homework in the last-period study hall I was able to arrange for, then running over to the Food Basket for another race with Sticks, who liked to have as many trays as possible full and waiting for me when I arrived."
• "It made me feel happy that I was close to Donnacha while I listened to it, and afterwards back in the study hall I composed some poems in response to it, and, I am almost ashamed to say, some prayers that I later showed to Father Moorehouse."