MESS HALL

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does mess hall mean? 

• MESS HALL (noun)
  The noun MESS HALL has 1 sense:

1. a (large) military dining room where service personnel eat or relax

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• MESS HALL (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A (large) military dining room where service personnel eat or relax

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Synonyms:

mess; mess hall

Hypernyms ("mess hall" is a kind of...):

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

Meronyms (parts of "mess hall"):

training table (planned meals for athletes in training (usually served in a mess hall))

Domain category:

armed forces; armed services; military; military machine; war machine (the military forces of a nation)

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

officer's mess (a mess for the exclusive use of officers)