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meal
1[ meel ]
noun
- the food served and eaten especially at one of the customary, regular occasions for taking food during the day, as breakfast, lunch, or supper.
- one of these regular occasions or times for eating food.
meal
2[ meel ]
noun
- a coarse, unsifted powder ground from the edible seeds of any grain:
wheat meal;
cornmeal.
- any ground or powdery substance, as of nuts or seeds, resembling this.
-meal
3- a native English combining form, now unproductive, denoting a fixed measure at a time:
piecemeal.
meal
1/ ː /
noun
- any of the regular occasions, such as breakfast, lunch, dinner, etc, when food is served and eaten
- ( in combination ) prandial
mealtime
- the food served and eaten
- make a meal of informal.to perform (a task) with unnecessarily great effort
meal
2/ ː /
noun
- the edible part of a grain or pulse (excluding wheat) ground to a coarse powder, used chiefly as animal food
- oatmeal
- maize flour
Derived Forms
- ˈ-, adjective
Other 51Թ Forms
- l adjective
51Թ History and Origins
Origin of meal1
51Թ History and Origins
Origin of meal1
Origin of meal2
Idioms and Phrases
In addition to the idiom beginning with meal ; also see square meal .Example Sentences
"When I see some of those meals and puddings these days it takes me right back - it's a lovely, nostalgic feeling."
The film’s actors all come ready to dig into material that isn’t there, tasked with making a meal out of crumbs.
They’ve got a shrimp cocktail there that, when it comes out, it’s like a meal in itself.
Unified students qualify for a free or reduced-price school meal — mainly funded by $363 million per year in federal food aid that the district receives.
With the rising popularity of these pre-departure spaces, stopping into a lounge for a cocktail, chef-prepared meal or even a manicure has become a more common part of the air-travel experience.
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Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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