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How to pronounce meal in English?

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Type Words
Synonyms repast
Type of sustenance, nourishment, nutriment, nutrition, victuals, alimentation, aliment
Has types square meal, banquet, bite, breakfast, brunch, buffet, collation, dejeuner, dinner, feast, lunch, luncheon, mess, nosh-up, picnic, potluck, refection, snack, spread, afternoon tea, supper, tea, teatime, tiffin, ploughman's lunch
Type Words
Type of occasion
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Type of food product, foodstuff
Has types matzoh meal, kibble, matzah meal, matzo meal, oatmeal, pea flour, rolled oats, farina, cornmeal, pinole, indian meal
Derivation mealy

Examples of meal

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Often too busy to eat, they tend to grab snack foods, and prefer the quick meal.
From the kansas.com
Search within the system and it will arrive at a good wine pairing for the meal.
From the sciencedaily.com
This is our granddaughters with a pig for our 50th anniversary celebration meal.
From the kansas.com
Families rise before dawn to pray and share a light meal called suhur in Arabic.
From the kansas.com
Not surprisingly, the children are adept at the process of preparing for a meal.
From the courier-journal.com
My sister and brother-in-law and their children will be joining us for our meal.
From the charlotteobserver.com
As a teaser for the third and final course in this three-course meal, it's fine.
From the sacbee.com
They live in shelters or rent rooms, depend on meal sites and may self-medicate.
From the thenewstribune.com
We never had a bad meal, service was always attentive and the food was the best.
From the orlandosentinel.com
More examples
  • The food served and eaten at one time
  • Any of the occasions for eating food that occur by custom or habit at more or less fixed times
  • Coarsely ground foodstuff; especially seeds of various cereal grasses or pulse
  • A meal is an instance of eating, specifically one that takes place at a specific time and includes specific, prepared food.
  • Food that is prepared and eaten, usually at a specific time (e.g. breakfast = morning meal, lunch = noon meal, etc); To defile or taint
  • (Meals) There is a pre-set menu for meals as per the tour program. Packed meals would be served at some places. The type of meals are clearly indicated in the brochure. ...
  • (16 Meals) Clients are responsible for models' meals on all full day bookings.
  • (Meals) Bodybuilders usually split their food intake for the day into 5 to 7 meals of roughly equal nutritional content and attempt to eat at regular intervals (normally between 2 and 3 hours). ...
  • (Meals) Specific times that food is served in Kennedy Dining Hall generally divided in breakfast, lunch and dinner on weekdays and brunch and dinner on the weekends. Students have the option to select plans that allow access to the dining hall for specific number of meals each week.