meal
Meanings
Plural: meals
Noun
- 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
- Food that is prepared and eaten, usually at a specific time, and usually in a comparatively large quantity (as opposed to a snack).
- Food served or eaten as a repast.
- A break taken by a police officer in order to eat.
- A time or an occasion.
- The ground-up edible part of various grains, used as a basis of food or feed; either flour or a coarser blend than flour (usage varies).
- Any of various similarly granular materials prepared from other sources, such as bones or wood.
- Any of various other granular or powdery materials, either ground by humans or occurring in nature, named figuratively after a resemblance to grain meal.
- A speck or spot.
- A part; a fragment; a portion.
Verb
- To yield or be plentiful in meal.
- To defile or taint.
Origin / Etymology
From Middle English mel, from Old English mǣl (“measure, time, occasion, set time, time for eating, meal”), from Proto-West Germanic *māl, from Proto-Germanic *mēlą, from Proto-Indo-European *meh₁- (“to measure”).
Cognate with West Frisian miel, Dutch maal (“meal, time, occurrence”), German Mal (“time”), Mahl (“meal”), Norwegian Bokmål mål (“meal”), Swedish mål (“meal”); and (from Proto-Indo-European) with Ancient Greek μέτρον (métron, “measure”), Latin mensus, Russian ме́ра (méra, “measure”), Lithuanian mẽtas. Related to Old English mǣþ (“measure, degree, proportion”).
Scrabble Score: 6
meal is a valid Scrabble (US) TWL wordmeal is a valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
meal is a valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary
Words With Friends Score: 8
meal is a valid Words With Friends word