meal
noun
[ miːl ]
• any of the regular occasions in a day when a reasonably large amount of food is eaten.
• "the evening meal"
Similar:
repast,
snack,
something to eat,
spread,
blowout,
bite,
bite to eat,
nosh,
feed,
nosh-up,
tuck-in,
square,
khana,
collation,
refection,
Origin:
Old English mǣl (also in the sense ‘measure’, surviving in words such as piecemeal ‘measure taken at one time’), of Germanic origin. The early sense of meal involved a notion of ‘fixed time’; compare with Dutch maal ‘meal, (portion of) time’ and German Mal ‘time’, Mahl ‘meal’, from an Indo-European root meaning ‘to measure’.
meal
noun
• the edible part of any grain or pulse ground to powder.
• "she called to Judith to bring some meal for the hens"
Origin:
Old English melu, meolo, of Germanic origin; related to Dutch meel and German Mehl, from an Indo-European root shared by Latin molere ‘to grind’.
