MEAL

Meal

A meal is an eating occasion that takes place at a certain time and includes specific, prepared food, or the food eaten on that occasion. The names used for specific meals in English varies greatly depending on the speaker's culture, the time of day, or the size of the meal.

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meal

Noun

  1. Food that is prepared and eaten, usually at a specific time (e.g. breakfast = morning meal, lunch = noon meal, etc).
  2. Food served or eaten as a repast.

Noun (etymology 2)

  1. The coarse-ground edible part of various grains often used to feed animals; flour.

Noun (etymology 3)

  1. A speck or spot.
  2. A part; a fragment; a portion.

Verb

  1. To defile or taint.
    Were he meal'd with that / Which he corrects, than were he tyrannous. ― Shakespeare.


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