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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

Words nearby dining hall

dingleberry, dingo, dingus, dingy, dining car, dining hall, dining room, dining table, dinitrobenzene, dinitrogen tetroxide, dinitrophenol

Example sentences from the Web for dining hall

In the dining-hall there was a big table, which could be opened out.

The Folk-Tales of the Magyars |Various
From time to time he heard loud laughter and snatches of song which rose above the jingle of the glasses in the dining-hall.

The Grey Cloak |Harold MacGrath
There was indeed very little time, and as the half-hour struck, he was carried down in the throng to the dining-hall.

The Loom of Youth |Alec Waugh
After his departure, Beauty went back and sat down in the dining-hall, and began weeping herself.

Tales of Passed Times |Charles Perrault

So we went downstairs together,--I wondering what now had happened,--and so into the dining-hall.

A Set of Rogues |Frank Barrett