dining hall

noun

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

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The controversy centers on a photo taken in a Stanford dining hall. — ABC News, 24 Sep. 2026 That edited photo, which shows the students — both the fake one and a pair of real ones — smiling and holding up plates of food, was then plastered around campus to promote the university’s dining hall. — Frank Landymore, Futurism, 23 Sep. 2026 Friends told her that in the dining hall, where copies of the Review are often scattered like birdseed, some students were trashing the column. — Jesse Dougherty, New Yorker, 5 Sep. 2026 There will be no central dining hall, but there will be a commissary for staff, which will serve more than 2,000 workers by the time all four towers, built in phases, are complete. — Roger Vincent, Los Angeles Times, 18 Aug. 2026 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 27 Sep. 2026.

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