Meal (Noun)
Meaning 1
Any of the occasions for eating food that occur by custom or habit at more or less fixed times.
Classification
Nouns denoting time and temporal relations.
Meaning 2
The food served and eaten at one time.
Classification
Nouns denoting foods and drinks.
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Meaning 3
Coarsely ground foodstuff; especially seeds of various cereal grasses or pulse.
Classification
Nouns denoting foods and drinks.
Examples
- The chickens were fed a nutritious meal made from oats and barley to keep them healthy.
- She mixed a combination of sunflower seeds and cracked corn into the bird feeder to create a tasty meal for the visiting birds.
- The farm produced a special meal for livestock, a blend of wheat, oats, and peas that was both affordable and nutritious.
- To make a healthy snack for her family, she ground up a mix of nuts and seeds into a fine meal and added dried fruit for extra flavor.
- The small bird cracked open the sunflower seed with its beak to extract the delicious meal inside.