The Collaborative International Dictionary
dining-hall
dininghall \dininghall\, dining-hall \dining-hall\, dining hall \dining hall\n. a large room at a college or university, used especially for dining.
Wiktionary
dining-hall
n. (alternative spelling of dining hall English)
WordNet
dining-hall
n. a large room at a college or university; used especially for dining
Usage examples of "dining-hall".
Resembling the dining-hall of a rich Oxford college, it was a heavy and soot-blackened essay in Victorian gothic by Barry, architect of the rebuilt Houses of Parliament.
And I wonder whether you remember a little, lean, lively gentleman in a scratch-wig and a wraprascal, that came to Shaws very late of a dark night, and whom you were awakened out of your beds and brought down to the dining-hall to be presented to, by the name of Mr.