dining hall

noun

1. a large room in which meals are served to members of a special group and their guests, as to the students and faculty of a college.

Word History and Origins

Origin of dining hall¹

First recorded in 1660–70

Example Sentences

For months, those in the independent living apartments have worn wristbands so that people going out for groceries and errands wouldn’t mingle with those choosing to eat in the dining hall.

From Washington Post

The initial plan includes dining hall staff preparing and delivering meals to the athletes each day, but after positive tests among dining employees, Howard pivots to the stipend arrangement.

From Washington Post

This year was supposed to be filled with late-night group study sessions and greasy dining hall food.

From Washington Post

All but one of her classes are remote, dining halls allow takeout meals only, students cannot visit friends in other dorms, and most clubs are virtual.

From Washington Post

Now, she walks back and forth from her apartment to the dining hall, hoping 40 percent of her normal step count is enough to stave off health issues.

From Voice of San Diego

“Check the dining hall,” a young woman exclaimed, waving to her left, and a dozen persons surged in that direction.

From The Daily Beast

Every day that goes by is a day a survivor has to sit in the dining hall with [his or her] perpetrator.

From The Daily Beast

The dining hall, it seemed, had been put to more use than the gymnasium.

From The Daily Beast

All of us were packed together into a fifty-man dining hall.

From The Daily Beast

As she waited for her hearing, Sclove saw her attacker around campus, in the library and in the dining hall.

From The Daily Beast

The old dining-hall had shared in the general decay, and been shorn of all its ancient honours.

From Project Gutenberg

But she gazes beyond the salon, back into the big dining hall, where the white crepe myrtle grows.

From Project Gutenberg

Not till Felix comes to her in the chamber above the dining hall—there where that trumpet vine hangs—comes to say good-by to her.

From Project Gutenberg

Dr. Ashton's included what had been the common parlour and the dining-hall of the whole body.

From Project Gutenberg

Jeanne took the old man's arm, and they went into the dining-hall, where he sunk into his armchair.

From Project Gutenberg

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