DINING-HALL

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does dining-hall mean? 

• DINING-HALL (noun)
  The noun DINING-HALL has 1 sense:

1. a large room at a college or university; used especially for dining

  Familiarity information: DINING-HALL used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• DINING-HALL (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A large room at a college or university; used especially for dining

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Hypernyms ("dining-hall" is a kind of...):

dining-room; dining room (a room used for dining)

Meronyms (parts of "dining-hall"):

high table (a dining table in a dining-hall raised on a platform; seats are reserved for distinguished persons)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "dining-hall"):

refectory (a communal dining-hall (usually in a monastery))

 Context examples 

Just as eleven of them had done blessing her, a great noise was heard in the courtyard, and word was brought that the thirteenth fairy was come, with a black cap on her head, and black shoes on her feet, and a broomstick in her hand: and presently up she came into the dining-hall.

(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)