mess hall

English

Etymology

From mess (“military meal”) + hall.

Noun

mess hall (plural mess halls)

1. (US) A military dining room or building on an army or marine base.

   Synonyms: chow hall, dining hall, dining facility, DFAC

   • December 7 2022, Simon Shuster, “2022 Person of the Year: Volodymyr Zelensky”, in Time‎^[1]:

     In the mess hall, lunch was served in plastic bowls and paper cups: rice with ragù, sausage soup with day-old bread.

Translations

military dining room

• Finnish: kanttiini (fi), muonituskeskus (fi)
• Greek:

  Ancient: συσσίτια n pl (sussítia), φιδίτιον n (phidítion)

• Icelandic: matsalur (is) m
• Irish: bialann f
• Russian: столо́вая (ru) f (stolóvaja)
• Spanish: comedor militar m, cantina (es) f, comedor (es) m