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mess hall
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun mess hall has 1 sense
- mess hall(n = noun.artifact) mess - a (large) military dining room where service personnel eat or relax; Array is a kind of dining-room, dining room
has particulars: officer's mess
has parts: training table
THESAURUS
mess hall
automat, beanery, bistro, buffet, buvette, cafe, cafeteria, canteen, cantina, chophouse, chuck wagon, coffee shop, coffeehouse, coffeeroom, commons, cookhouse, cookshack, cookshop, diner, dinette, dining car, dining hall, dining room, dining saloon, dog wagon, drive-in, drive-in restaurant, eatery, eating house, fast-food chain, grill, grillroom, hamburger stand, hash house, hashery, hot-dog stand, kitchen, lunch counter, lunch wagon, luncheonette, lunchroom, mess, messroom, pizzeria, quick-lunch counter, refectory, restaurant, salle a manger, smorgasbord, snack bar, tavern, tearoom, trattoria
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