Associations to the word «Refectory»

Wiktionary

REFECTORY, noun. A dining-hall especially in an institution such as a college or monastery.
REFECTORY TABLE, noun. A very long dining table mostly used in institutions

Dictionary definition

REFECTORY, noun. A communal dining-hall (usually in a monastery).

Wise words

Words - so innocent and powerless as they are, as standing in a dictionary, how potent for good and evil they become in the hands of one who knows how to combine them.
Nathaniel Hawthorne