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meal

/ˈmiːl/noun1 syllable

Meal means: the food served and eaten at one time.

Synonyms for meal3

noun, as in the food served and eaten at one time

repast

also used for meal

mese, refection

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What does meal mean?3

noun

1

the food served and eaten at one time

2

any of the occasions for eating food that occur by custom or habit at more or less fixed times

3

coarsely ground foodstuff; especially seeds of various cereal grasses or pulse

Definitions from the Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.

What rhymes with meal?25

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All 25 rhymes for meal, grouped by syllable

Meal in a sentence

  • As soon as he arrived, he demanded a meal.unknown
  • If you want to lose weight, you should cut down on between-meal snacks.CK
  • To her joy, all the guest praised the meal.unknown
  • After a hard day's work, a man can do with a good, hot meal.CK
  • Is there, for example, a three-course meal that conveys sin, punishment, and redemption?papabear
  • You can eat a complete meal, or just go easy with our salad bar.Dejo
  • When your stomach is busy, digesting a big meal your brain takes a vacation.Source_Benedict_1921
  • As we ate our meal, we talked about what we had done that day.CK

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Forms of meal

as a noun

plural
meals