meal
/miːl/
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Translation
The food that people eat at one time, such as breakfast or dinner.
Word origin
From Old English mael, meaning a fixed time, and later a time for eating.
- Origin
- Old English
- Root
- mael
Grammar
Gender
Pluralmeals
Examples
three .
"Meals" is the plural, meaning more than one meal.
.
"Meal" is the food eaten at one time.
evening.
Here "meal" is the food she makes for people to eat.
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