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mess halls

mess halls is the plural of mess hall.

Meaning of mess hall

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

Questions about mess halls

What is mess halls the plural of?
Mess halls is the plural of mess hall.

Words near mess halls in the dictionary

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

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