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meal
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[ noun ] (food) the food served and eaten at one time
Synonyms Used in print (Organic Gardening and Farming,...)A salad with greens and tomato is a popular and wonderfully healthful addition to a meal , but add an avocado and you have something really special . (B. J. D. Meeuse, The Story of Pollination....)When the larvae hatch , they feed_on the beebread , although they also receive extra honey meals from their mother . (J. H. Hexter, "Thomas More: On the Margins...)generous public provision for the infirm ; democratic and secret elections of all officers including priests , meals taken publicly in common refectories ; a common habit or uniform prescribed for all citizens ; even houses changed once a decade ; six hours of manual_labor a day for all but a handful of magistrates and scholars , and careful measures to prevent anyone from shirking ; no private_property , no money ; no sort of pricing at_all for any goods or services , and therefore no market in the economic sense of the term . (Howard Fast, April Morning....)I have observed that being up on a horse changes the whole character of a man , and when a very small man is up on a saddle , he 'd like as not prefer to eat his meals there . (Irving Stone, The Agony and the Ecstasy....)Argiento had been trained so rigorously by the Jesuits that Michelangelo was unable to change his habits : up before dawn to scrub the floors , whether they were dirty or not ; water boiling on the fire for washing laundry every_day , the pots scoured with river sand after each meal . |
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[ noun ] any of the occasions for eating food that occur by custom or habit at more or less fixed times
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