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mess hall

mess hall noun: a military dining room or building on an army or marine base.

Noun

mess hall (plural mess halls)

  1. (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

Synonyms of mess hall

Forms of mess hall

pluralmess halls

Origin of mess hall

From mess (“military meal”) + hall.

Questions about mess hall

What does mess hall mean?
Mess hall means a military dining room or building on an army or marine base.
What part of speech is mess hall?
Mess hall is a noun.
What is the plural of mess hall?
The plural of mess hall is mess halls.

Words near mess hall in the dictionary

  1. mess bags
  2. mess beef
  3. mess cup
  4. mess cups
  5. mess dress
  6. mess hall
  7. mess halls
  8. mess jacket
  9. mess jackets
  10. Mess John
  11. Mess Johns

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