[countable] an occasion when people eat food, especially breakfast, lunch or dinner. Try not to eat between meals. Lunch is his main meal of the day. Ready meal · Barium meal · Mealie meal noun · Meal ticket noun

1[countable] an occasion when people sit down to eat food, especially breakfast, lunch, or dinner Try not to eat between meals. · 2[countable] the food that is ...

There is one meaning in OED's entry for the verb meal. See 'Meaning & use' for definition, usage, and quotation evidence. This word is now obsolete.

a card or ticket that gives you the right to have a cheap or free meal, for example at school. See meal ticket in the Oxford Advanced American Dictionary.

​a meal that you buy already prepared and which only needs to be heated before you eat it. There's a growing reliance on processed food and ready meals.

There are six meanings listed in OED's entry for the noun meal, one of which is labelled obsolete. See 'Meaning & use' for definitions, usage, and quotation ...

​maize that has been made into a powder, used especially for porridge. A bag of mealie meal can provide a family with breakfast for weeks.

6 дней назад · an occasion when food is served or eaten, esp. breakfast, lunch, or dinner, or the food itself on such an occasion:.

a time in the day when you eat a meal. As every parent with young children knows, life revolves around mealtimes.

1[uncountable, countable] the main meal of the day, eaten either in the middle of the day or in the evening It's time for dinner. When do you have dinner?