meal
/miːl/
noun
- An occasion when food is eaten, or the food that is eaten on that occasion.
- She packed a healthy meal for her lunch break.
- We usually have our biggest meal in the evening.
- The restaurant serves three meals a day: breakfast, lunch, and dinner.
- The ground or crushed seeds of a grain, used as food or for making flour.
- The farmer ground the wheat into a coarse meal.
- You can use oat meal to make porridge or cookies.
- Cornmeal is a key ingredient in this traditional bread recipe.
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