dining hall

noun

: a large room where meals are served at a school, college, etc.

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There were only three people in the large dining hall: Al-Fayed, Dodi, and, seated between them, the actress Darryl Hannah, who had opened the sale the previous morning. airmail.news, 7 Dec. 2024 That night, there was a mood of dismay in the dining hall. Sheila Heti, The New Yorker, 19 Jan. 2025 Or that there would be fans like Andrew Bradshaw, a 21-year-old from Alabama who often spends idle time watching Total Running Productions on the way to the dining hall, to his apartment, or maybe even right before track and field practice at Troy University. Cory Mull, Forbes, 26 Nov. 2024 This offseason, Penn State football added a new training table — essentially a football-only dining hall — in the team’s facility. Audrey Snyder, The Athletic, 26 Aug. 2024 See All Example Sentences for dining hall

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“Dining hall.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/dining%20hall. Accessed 3 Mar. 2025.

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