mess hall en · NOUN
Etymology
From mess (“military meal”) + hall.
Meanings
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(US) A military dining room or building on an army or marine base.
In the mess hall, lunch was served in plastic bowls and paper cups: rice with ragù, sausage soup with day-old bread.
2022 December 7, Simon Shuster, “2022 Person of the Year: Volodymyr Zelensky”, in TIME, archived from the original on 04 Jan 2023:
Forms
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| mess halls | Number=Plur | lexicographic |
Synonyms
dining hall · dining facility · chow hall · DFAC
Translations (11)
es comedor (military dining room) · ru столо́вая (military dining room) · fi muonituskeskus (military dining room) · grc συσσίτια (military dining room) · grc φιδίτιον (military dining room) · ga bialann (military dining room) · es cantina (military dining room) · fi kanttiini (military dining room) · bg столова (military dining room) · is matsalur (military dining room) · es comedor militar (military dining room)