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dining hall

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noun

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.

Origin of dining hall

First recorded in 1660–70
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Related Words for dining hall

arena, theater, gymnasium, amphitheater, lounge, chamber, church, gallery, auditorium, ballroom, gym, salon, casino, mart, armory, lyceum, refectory, stateroom

Examples from the Web for dining hall

Historical Examples of dining hall

  • The dining-hall was decorated for the occasion with appropriate portraits.

  • I saw you in the dining-hall and told Steve it was you and he wouldn't believe it!

    Left End Edwards

    Ralph Henry Barbour

  • They now descended to the dining-hall, where an elegant breakfast was served.

    Eventide

    Effie Afton

  • She would not have ventured alone into the dining-hall though she were starving.

  • At tea-time the same heaviness of spirits hung over the dining-hall.