Results for meal

Definitions of meal:

part of speech: noun

The food taken at one time: the act or the time of taking food.

part of speech: noun

Grain coarsely ground; the portion of food taken at one time to satisfy the appetite; food prepared for use upon the table at one time; the act or time of eating.

part of speech: noun

Ground grain not sifted from the bran or coarser portion.

part of speech: noun

The food taken at one time; a repast; a part; a fragment; piecemeal, by separate pieces; by fragments.

part of speech: noun

Grain ground to powder.

Usage examples for meal:

• The dragon bore it as long as she could, but, like everyone else, she couldn't stand being made fun of, so presently she dragged herself up the mountain very slowly, because she had just had a rather heavy meal and stood outside and said, " What are you laughing at?" "The Book of Dragons", Edith Nesbit

• That's it, declared Uncle Daniel, and each time we scared him off he came back again to finish his meal "The Bobbsey Twins in the Country", Laura Lee Hope

• Towards the end of the meal he asked the question which had been on his lips more than once. "The Box with the Broken Seals", E. Phillips Oppenheim