Definitions for mess hall
mess hall

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1. mess, mess hallnoun

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

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1. mess hallnoun

   A military dining room or building on an army or marine base.

2. Etymology: From mess (military meal).

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1. mess hall

   The mess (also called a mess deck aboard ships) is a designated area where military personnel socialize, eat and (in some cases) live. The term is also used to indicate the groups of military personnel who belong to separate messes, such as the officers' mess, the chief petty officer mess, and the enlisted mess. In some civilian societies this military usage has been extended to the eating arrangements of other disciplined services such as fire fighting and police forces. The root of mess is the Old French mes, "portion of food" (cf. modern French mets), drawn from the Latin verb mittere, meaning "to send" and "to put" (cf. modern French mettre), the original sense being "a course of a meal put on the table"; cfr. also the modern Italian portata with the same meaning, past participle of portare, to bring. This sense of mess, which appeared in English in the 13th century, was often used for cooked or liquid dishes in particular, as in the "mess of pottage" (porridge or soup) or Eton mess.

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1. mess hall

   A mess hall is a large dining area, often within a military base or other institution, where people gather to have meals communally.

Matched Categories

1. • Dining Room
   • Military

How to pronounce mess hall?

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Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of mess hall in Chaldean Numerology is: 9

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of mess hall in Pythagorean Numerology is: 8

Examples of mess hall in a Sentence

1. George Takei:

   There were 6.5 acres covered with barracks, barbwire fence, sentry towers -- I recognize them, i remembered a stray dog that we adopted who would crawl into the crawl space and peer out from under it. Or the mess hall and the noise and the laughter and so forth.

References

1. ^ Princeton's WordNet
   http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?s=mess hall
2. ^ Wiktionary
   https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Mess_Hall
3. ^ Wikipedia
   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mess_Hall
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