meal

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• IPA: /miːl/
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Singular meal

Plural meals

1. A meal is the food you eat at regular times of the day. Breakfast, lunch, and dinner, are meals.

   Thanks for dinner! I haven't had a good Italian meal like that for a long time.

2. The edible part of certain grains; it is often used to feed animals.