The noun mess has 6 senses (first 5 from tagged texts)
1. (12) mess, messiness, muss, mussiness -- (a state of confusion and disorderliness; "the house was a mess"; "she smoothed the mussiness of the bed")
2. (1) fix, hole, jam, mess, muddle, pickle, kettle of fish -- (informal terms for a difficult situation; "he got into a terrible fix"; "he made a muddle of his marriage")
3. (1) mess -- (soft semiliquid food; "a mess of porridge")
4. (1) mess -- (a meal eaten in a mess hall by service personnel)
5. (1) mess, mess hall -- (a (large) military dining room where service personnel eat or relax)
6. batch, deal, flock, good deal, great deal, hatful, heap, lot, mass, mess, mickle, mint, muckle, peck, pile, plenty, pot, quite a little, raft, sight, slew, spate, stack, tidy sum, wad, whole lot, whole slew -- ((often followed by `of') a large number or amount or extent; "a batch of letters"; "a deal of trouble"; "a lot of money"; "he made a mint on the stock market"; "it must have cost plenty")
Overview of verb mess
The verb mess has 2 senses (no senses from tagged texts)
1. mess -- (eat in a mess hall)
2. mess, mess up -- (make a mess of or create disorder in; "He messed up his room")