meal
About 17.37 uses per million words.
Meaning
- noun Correct quotes
- noun Move Middle English to an Middle English (enm) entry
- noun Possible search real New English citations for obsolete senses
- noun 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.
- noun Food served or eaten as a repast.
- noun A break taken by a police officer in order to eat.
- noun A time or an occasion.
- noun The ground-up edible part of various grains, used as a basis of food or feed; either flour or a coarser blend than flour .
Similar words
repast dinner luncheon menu dining lunch diner dine supper restaurant
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Word family
meals
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