English dictionary
mess
nounAudio pronunciation
Parts of speech
Definitions
noun
- a (large) military dining room where service personnel eat or relax
noun
- a meal eaten in a mess hall by service personnel
noun
- soft semiliquid food
noun
- (often followed by ‘of’) a large number or amount or extent
noun
- informal terms for a difficult situation
noun
- a state of confusion and disorderliness
verb
- make a mess of or create disorder in
verb
- eat in a mess hall
Example sentences
a mess of porridge
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
he got into a terrible fix
he made a muddle of his marriage
the house was a mess
she smoothed the mussiness of the bed
He messed up his room