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UK
/mˈiːl/
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[ US /ˈmiɫ/ ]
[ US /ˈmiɫ/ ]
NOUN
- 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
- the food served and eaten at one time
How To Use meal In A Sentence
- Alma talked a great deal over that meal of roast turkey.
- He's come back to scrounge a meal and a bed, and he'll be off with what he's managed to steal before daybreak. THE BLACK OPAL
- The capon burns, and the pig falls from the spit, and the meal will BE all cold if you do not come home.
- The wives showed themselves true to stereotype by forever cooking meals containing an abundance of chips and driving to shoe shops in Japanese cabriolets.
- The smoothly boiled porridge, with its accompaniment of thick yellow cream; the new-laid eggs; the grilled trout, fresh from the stream; the freshly baked "baps" and "scones," the crisp rolls of oatcake; and last, but not least, the delectable, home-made marmalade, which is as much a part of the meal as the coffee itself. Big Game A Story for Girls
- The restaurant serves three buffet meals a day and you can go all-inclusive. The Sun
- Enjoy these nutritious, easy-to-make meals all summer, and say goodbye to your excess pounds - and aloha to a slimmer you!
- The "gaucho" approach to meals suits me well: every few moments there was another skewer of luscious beef, lamb, ribs, or whatever coming by to be loaded on my plate. Medlogs - Recent stories
- Pick one meal a day from each colour-coded section. The Sun
- Like all the meals, the jerk comes with red peas (kidney beans) and rice, as well as plantains that are puffy, soft, and sweet like caramel.