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Noun: meal  meel
  1. A meal or the food eaten at a meal
    "They enjoyed a sumptuous meal at the wedding reception";
    - repast
     
  2. Any of the occasions for eating food that occur by custom or habit at more or less fixed times
    "They always had their main meal at midday"
     
  3. Coarsely ground foodstuff; especially seeds of various cereal grasses or pulse
    "The miller ground the wheat into meal"

Derived forms: meals

Type of: aliment [archaic], food product, foodstuff, nourishment, nutriment, nutrition, occasion, sustenance, victuals, vittles [archaic]

Encyclopedia: Meal, Ready-to-Eat