officer's mess

1. 1.

   a mess for the exclusive use of officers

   Broadermess

Questions about officer's mess

What does officer's mess mean?

officer's mess means "a mess for the exclusive use of officers".

Is officer's mess a common word?

officer's mess is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.