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A refectory is a large room in a school, college, monastery, or similar place where meals are served and people eat together. It is a slightly old or formal word, and it belongs to institutions, not to a normal restaurant in town. In a monastery it is the hall; in some British schools and colleges people still use it for the hall with long tables where students eat. The cooking happens elsewhere; this room is for sitting down and eating. Though actually, many students will just say hall or in daily talk, and they will be understood. Refectory is the more name for that same kind of room.
食堂、膳堂（學校、修道院等機構的大餐廳，不是一般街上的餐廳）
組成Via Middle English refectori from Late Latin refectorium, from Latin reficere “to remake, to rebuild” — a place where a meal restores you. The ending -ory here marks a place.
同家族的字
- refectionrare word for a meal or eating to restore yourself; same Latin reficere
原始詞典資料1 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
refectorynoun/ɹɪˈfɛkt(ə)ɹi/
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A dining hall, especially in an institution such as a college or monastery.
- t was like a train going in and out of tunnels and that was like the noise of the boys eating in the refectory when you opened and closed the flaps of the ears.
- They compare very well with similar cafes elsewhere and the quality, for example, is far better and the price cheaper than in my college refectory.
資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。