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noun
A large communal building used in early Germanic and Norse societies as a place for feasting, drinking, socializing, and governance, serving also as the residence of a chieftain or king and symbolising the heart of the community or tribe.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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History
Revived from Old English meduheall.
