English dictionary
meal
/m/i/l/
Definitions, examples, synonyms and antonyms from WordNet 3.0.
noun
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the food served and eaten at one time
Synonyms repastSource: WordNet 3.0
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any of the occasions for eating food that occur by custom or habit at more or less fixed times
Source: WordNet 3.0
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coarsely ground foodstuff; especially seeds of various cereal grasses or pulse
Source: WordNet 3.0
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A part; a fragment; a portion.
Source: webster1913
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The portion of food taken at a particular time for the satisfaction of appetite; the quantity usually taken at one time with the purpose of satisfying hunger; a repast; the act or time of eating a meal; as, the traveler has not eaten a good <i>meal</i> for a week; there was silence during the <i>meal</i>.
Source: webster1913
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Grain (esp. maize, rye, or oats) that is coarsely ground and unbolted; also, a kind of flour made from beans, pease, etc.; sometimes, any flour, esp. if coarse.
Source: webster1913
verb
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To sprinkle with, or as with, meal.
Source: webster1913