meal
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Food that is prepared and eaten, usually at a specific time, and usually in a comparatively large quantity.
“Breakfast is the morning meal, lunch is the noon meal, and dinner, or supper, is the evening meal.”
A kind of
- nourishment
Kinds of meal
- mess
- square meal
- breakfast
- lunch
- tea
- dinner
- picnic
- bite
Example sentences
Word history
From Old English "mǣl" (measure, time, occasion, set time, time for eating, meal).
Where this comes from
This definition is adapted from “meal” on Wiktionary, by its contributors; example sentences are from Tatoeba, credited to their authors above; related-word lists use Open English WordNet (CC BY 4.0, based on Princeton WordNet), published under CC BY-SA 4.0. This page is published under the same licence.