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MESS HALL
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A (large) military dining room where service personnel eat or relax
Synonyms:
mess; mess hall
Classified under:
Nouns denoting man-made objects
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)
