refectory

1. 1.

   a communal dining-hall (usually in a monastery)

   Broaderdining-hall

Other forms of refectory

plural

refectories·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about refectory

What does refectory mean?

refectory means "a communal dining-hall (usually in a monastery)".

How many syllables are in refectory?

refectory has 4 syllables and divides as re-fec-to-ry under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.