meal
Pronunciation: /ˈmiːl/
The English word “meal” has 11 meanings listed here.
noun
- Food that is prepared and eaten, usually at a specific time, and usually in a comparatively large quantity.
- Food served or eaten as a repast.
- A break taken by a police officer in order to eat.
- A time or an occasion.
- The ground-up edible part of various grains, used as a basis of food or feed; either flour or a coarser blend than flour (usage varies).
- Any of various similarly granular materials prepared from other sources, such as bones or wood.
- Any of various other granular or powdery materials, either ground by humans or occurring in nature, named figuratively after a resemblance to grain meal.
- A speck or spot.
- A part; a fragment; a portion.
verb
Etymology
From Middle English mel, from Old English mǣl (“measure, time, occasion, set time, time for eating, meal”), from Proto-West Germanic *māl, from Proto-Germanic *mēlą, from Proto-Indo-European *meh₁- (“to measure”). Cognate with West Frisian miel, Dutch maal (“meal, time, occurrence”), German Mal (“time”), Mahl (“meal”), Norwegian Bokmål mål (“meal”), Swedish mål (“meal”); and (from…
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