dining-hall
20
2.1
- noun
- /ˈdaɪnɪŋ hɔl/
:
comedor
- Every evening, students gather in the dining-hall to share their day over dinner.
- university dining halls
- dormitory and dining-hall
It will be a month before you find out what you like to eat from the dining hall and which dining hall you like to go to.
- It will be a month before you find out what you like to eat from the dining hall and which dining hall you like to go to.
- If you forget the value of a day, remember that the only thing worse than dining hall rock cod is day old dining hall rock cod.
- It's the people who work in our dining halls, those who work in our dormitories, our faculty and our staff more broadly.
- I, I, I was at Yale several years ago and, and was going around, I ate in the dining rooms, dining halls.
- It's a strictly kosher dining hall, and yet it's also a very expansive space that does not feel particularly parochial.
- And then for the dog, like you used to get down at a dining hall, get your food.
- At one point, the Princeton football team all left the dining hall in protest when Harvard's with one black player entered.
Examples
-
Then they ate dinner in that modern, airy, glassed-in dining hall, with its fine view of the green lake.
Fiction book (1991) -
This is the dining hall of the Sarah Siddons Society.
-
Dinner is in the dining hall.
-
You know that one girl who works in the dining hall?
-
I was on duty in the dining hall.
-
-We're going to the dining hall.
-
Today I went to my college dining hall or whatever and I got a flat bread.
-
But I'd go in the dining hall and I would eat there.
-
So today we had our breakfast there in the dining hall of the Inn at Harvard.
-
Students hurried home from late classes; the dining halls started dinner, sending warm vegetable smells into the cold air.
Fiction book (2001)
Synonyms
218
1.0
A place where people serve themselves from a counter and pay before they eat
201
1.0
A room in a house where people eat meals together
27
3.4
A large room where people in the military eat
18
1.0
A room in a school or workplace where people can buy and eat lunch
10
1.3
A space in a home or restaurant for eating meals
2
8.9
A large room where people in a college or monastery eat together
1
8.2
A large school room used for eating lunch and for events like assemblies
How Big
20
2.1
201
1.0
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Dining-hall is easy to remember: the word dining comes from an old word meaning 'to eat' and is the same root as dinner. The word hall means 'large room', so a dining-hall is simply a big room for eating.