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n. - Coarsely ground foodstuff; The food served and eaten at one time.

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Usage examples (39)
  • If you give a man a fish, he will have a single meal. If you teach him how to fish, he will eat all his life.
  • That's what we call the meal experience here, as in Who wants to go to sadness?
  • Simply being able to cook a meal is a skill that's disappearing, and it costs people a fortune to eat out all the time.
  • When I turn off the burners, the meal is ready ...
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