Meal

Quick meaning: Meal is a noun meaning (countable) Food that is prepared and eaten, usually at a specific time, and usually in a comparatively large quantity.

Meaning

(countable) Food that is prepared and eaten, usually at a specific time, and usually in a comparatively large quantity.

More Meanings

1. (countable) Food served or eaten as a repast.
2. (uncountable, informal) A break taken by a police officer in order to eat.
3. (countable, obsolete) A time or an occasion.
4. The ground-up edible part of various grains, used as a basis of food or feed; either flour or a coarser blend than flour (usage varies).
5. Any of various similarly granular materials prepared from other sources, such as bones or wood.
6. (intransitive, obsolete) To yield or be plentiful in meal.
7. Any of various other granular or powdery materials, either ground by humans or occurring in nature, named figuratively after a resemblance to grain meal.

Example Sentences

c1450, Secreta Secretorumː He that will cast meal upon meal is not able to have (a) long life.

Breakfast is the morning meal, lunch is the noon meal, and dinner, or supper, is the evening meal.

c1500, The King and the Hermitː I have been there and taken deal / And have had many (a) merry meal.

1796, Robert Bage, Hermsprong: or, Man As He Is Notː This letter was written whilst my hostess of the George was preparing the last meal I ever was to eat.

Word Forms

• meals
• mealing
• mealed

Synonyms for meal

Depending on context, synonyms include mese, refection, repast.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include repast, dinner, luncheon, menu, dining, lunch.

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