A customary or social occasion of taking food, esp. at a more or less fixed time of day, as breakfast, dinner, etc.

Eating; a meal, esp. a feast or banquet.

meal's meat (also meal of meat) = sense 3b. Now regional.

meal's meat (also meal of meat) = sense 3b. Now regional.

A meal, esp. a communal one taken in a religious house or the like; the occasion or time of such a meal. Now chiefly archaic and historical.

An act of taking food; a meal. Also a way or manner of feeding. archaic.

= mealtime, n. Also: a meal, food comprising a meal.

A meal; a feast, a repast.

A meal, a repast. Obsolete.

Occasionally in wider sense: That which puts an end to a fast, a meal.

An occasion when food is eaten; a meal, a feast. Also figurative.

Refreshment by eating; nourishment; a meal. Obsolete.

A portion of cooked food; a meal. rare.

The action of eating; a meal.

Food; also a meal. (Cf. scaff, n.) Also attributive.

slang. A feed.

Food, a meal.

A meal; mealtime.

Food, a meal (now chiefly British); (originally) food which may be nibbled as a snack or delicacy (chiefly North American). Also attributive in nos…

figurative. A place where food is provided, spec. a dining table; hence, a meal. colloquial.