Meal

Noun

 * 1) Food that is prepared and eaten, usually at a specific time.
 * 2) Any of the occasions for eating food that occur by custom or habit at more or less fixed times.
 * 3) Coarsely ground foodstuff; especially seeds of various cereal grasses or pulse
 * 4) The coarse-ground edible part of various grains often used to feed animals; flour.

Adjectives for Meal
supplementary; sunset; ominous; scanty; small; floating; satisfying; well-balanced; belated; abominable; miserable; vegetable; frugal; hearty; hasty; elaborate; slender; sumptuous; savory; lavish; hot; jovial; quick;  homelike;  sailor-cooked; quiet; infantile; dismal; miraculous; assured; plenteous; solitary; luxurious; economical; accustomed; superb; delectable; tempting; perfect; appetizing; famous; marvelous;  generous;  tasty;  home-cooked; thrilling; abundant.

Verbs for Meal
beg—; consume—; dispose of—; enhance—; lubricate—; relish—; savor—; snatch—; terminate—; —nourishes; — proceeds; —sustains; —tempts.

Terms Derived from Meal
mealy; cornmeal; oatmeal

Thesaurus
dinner, luncheon, food, breakfast, supper, allotment, allowance, attritus, barley, bird seed, board, bran, breakfast, carry too far, cat food, chicken feed, chop, chow, collation, commons, consume, corn, cosmic dust, crumb, crumble, devour, dinner, dog food, dust, dust ball, eat, eatage, efflorescence, emergency rations, ensilage, entertainment, fallout, fare, farina, feast, feed, feed on, field rations, filings, flour, fodder, food, forage, go overboard, go to extremes, go too far, grain, grits, groats, grub, hay, ingest, kittens, lint, lunch, luncheon, mash, meals, meat, mess, nourishment, oats, overdo, overplay, partake of, pasturage, pasture, pet food, powder, provender, pussies, raspings, rations, refection, refreshment, regalement, repas, repast, sawdust, scratch, scratch feed, short commons, silage, slops, smut, snack, soot, spread, straw, supper, swill, table, take, tea, treat, tucker, victuals, wheat

Etymology

 * 1) From, from  mæl:, from ,, from . Cognate with  maal:,  Mal:, Mahl:,  mål:; and (from Indo-European) with  μέτρον:,  mensus:,  мера:, Lithuanian mẽtas. Related to  mæþ:.
 * 2) From  mele:, from  melu:, from, from . Cognate with West Frisian moal:, Dutch meel:, German Mehl:, Old Church Slavonic undefined:, Albanian miell:,  malen:,  mahlen:, Old Irish melim:, Latin molo:, Tocharian A/B malywët:/melye:, Lithuanian málti:, Old Church Slavonic млѣти:, Ancient Greek μύλη:. More at.

Noun

 * Albanian:
 * Arabic: (wájba)
 * Armenian: կերակուր (kerakur), ճաշ (č̣aš)
 * Basque: otordu
 * Breton: pred, predoù
 * Bulgarian:
 * Catalan: àpat
 * Central Atlas Tamazight:
 * Chamicuro:
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:, ,
 * Crimean Tatar: aş
 * Croatian: ,
 * Czech:
 * Danish:
 * Dutch:
 * Esperanto: ,
 * Estonian:
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * Georgian: საჭმელი (sač‘meli), ჭამა (č‘ama)
 * German:
 * Greek: ,
 * Hebrew:
 * Hindi:
 * Hungarian:
 * Icelandic:
 * Interlingua: repasto
 * Irish:


 * Italian:
 * Japanese: 食事 (しょくじ, shokují)
 * Korean: 끼니 (kkini), 밥 (bap), 식사 (食事, siksa)
 * Latvian: ēdienreize, ēdiens
 * Lithuanian:
 * Macedonian:, јадење
 * Malay: hidangan
 * Maltese: ikel
 * Marathi: भोजन (bhojan), जेवण (jévann)
 * Norwegian:
 * Old English:
 * Old Norse: mál
 * Polish:, danie, jedzenie
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian: masā
 * Russian: еда (jedá), пища (píšča) , снедь (snjed’)
 * Sanskrit:
 * Scottish Gaelic: biadh
 * Serbian: оброк (obrok), jelo
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish: ,
 * Thai: (aahăan),  (sàwŏie)
 * Turkish: ,
 * Ukrainian: їжа (jíža), страва (stráva)
 * Vietnamese: bữa, bữa cơm
 * Yiddish: מאָלצײַט (moltsayt)

Noun

 * Czech:
 * Dutch:
 * Estonian: jahu
 * Georgian: ფქვილი (p‘k‘vili)
 * German:
 * Greek: ,
 * Italian: mangìme
 * Korean: (giul), 밀기울 (mil-giul)
 * Latvian:


 * Old English:
 * Old Norse: mjöl
 * Polish: mączka
 * Russian:
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish:
 * Thai:
 * Turkish: un (lit., "flour")
 * Yiddish: (mel)  or

Anagrams

 * amel, Elma, lame, lamé, lema, Malé, male

Noun

 * 1) meaning

Noun

 * 1)  honey

Etymology
From mel: <.

Verb

 * 1) enjoy