Word Meaning

mess definition and meaning

n. Mass; church service.
n. A quantity of food set on a table at one time; provision of food for a person or party for one meal; as, a mess of pottage; also, the food given to a beast at one time.
n. A number of persons who eat together, and for whom food is prepared in common; especially, persons in the military or naval service who eat at the same table; as, the wardroom mess.
n. A set of four; -- from the old practice of dividing companies into sets of four at dinner.
n. The milk given by a cow at one milking.
n. A disagreeable mixture or confusion of things; hence, a situation resulting from blundering or from misunderstanding; as, he made a mess of it.
v. i. To take meals with a mess; to belong to a mess; to eat (with others); as, I mess with the wardroom officers.
v. t. To supply with a mess.

Crossword clues for mess

- A dining area for members of the armed forces
- Army dining hall
- Canteen in a state of confusion
- Confusion and chaos
- Faux pas
- Litter
- Marine cuisine
- Meanness caused princess to leave in a state of disarray
- Meddle (with)
- Muddle
- Place where soldiers eat
- Predicament
- Spoil, ... up
- Storeroom essential part of army eatery
- Untidy condition
- Untidy jumble
- Untidy lot
- Untidy state
- Untidy state of things