Definition: a (large) military dining room where service personnel eat or relax
Similar words: dining room, dining-room
Definition: a room used for dining
Synonyms: mess
Definition: a meal eaten in a mess hall by service personnel
Synonyms: mess
Definition: soft semiliquid food
Usage: a mess of porridge
Similar words: victuals, aliment, alimentation, nourishment, nutriment, nutrition, sustenance
Definition: a source of materials to nourish the body
Synonyms: batch, mint, mountain, muckle, peck, passel, tidy sum, deal, spate, sight, slew, stack, heap, hatful, good deal, great deal, wad, pile, plenty, pot, quite a little, raft, lot, mass, mess, mickle, flock
Definition: (often followed by `of') a large number or amount or extent
Usage: a batch of letters; a deal of trouble; a lot of money; he made a mint on the stock market; see the rest of the winners in our huge passel of photos; it must have cost plenty; a slew of journalists; a wad of money
Similar words: large indefinite amount, large indefinite quantity
Definition: an indefinite quantity that is above the average in size or magnitude
Synonyms: pickle, hole, muddle, mess, jam, kettle of fish, fix
Definition: informal terms for a difficult situation
Usage: he got into a terrible fix; he made a muddle of his marriage
Similar words: difficulty
Definition: a condition or state of affairs almost beyond one's ability to deal with and requiring great effort to bear or overcome
Usage: grappling with financial difficulties
Synonyms: muss, mussiness, mess, messiness
Definition: a state of confusion and disorderliness
Usage: the house was a mess; she smoothed the mussiness of the bed
Similar words: disorder, disorderliness
Definition: a condition in which things are not in their expected places
Usage: the files are in complete disorder
Definition: make a mess of or create disorder in
Usage: He messed up his room
Synonyms: mess
Definition: eat in a mess hall
Similar words: eat
Definition: eat a meal; take a meal
Usage: We did not eat until 10 P.M. because there were so many phone calls; I didn't eat yet, so I gladly accept your invitation