| meal | |
| 1. n. Food that is prepared and eaten, usually at a specific time, and usually in a comparatively large quantity (as opposed to a snack, which is a comparatively small quantity of food). | |
| Breakfast is the morning meal, lunch is the noon meal, and dinner, or supper, is the evening meal. | |
| 2. n. Food served or eaten as a repast. | |
| 3. n. (obsolete) A time or an occasion. | |
| 4. n. The coarse-ground edible part of various grains often used to feed animals; flour or a coarser blend than flour. | |
| 5. n. (UK dialectal) A speck or spot. | |
| 6. n. A part; a fragment; a portion. | |
| 7. v. To defile or taint. | |
| Were he meal'd with that / Which he corrects, than were he tyrannous. ― Shakespeare. | |
