A meal is when you sit down and eat food. People usually have three meals every day, like breakfast, lunch, and dinner.
I have a meal at noon every day.
We eat a meal in the evening together.
A meal can mean the food itself that people eat at a meal time. It is the food served on a plate or eaten together.
The meal included rice and chicken.
I liked the meal you cooked yesterday.
Meal can also mean a type of food made by grinding grains like wheat or corn into small pieces or powder. People use this meal to cook bread or feed animals.
The farmer grows corn to make meal.
We bought fine cornmeal for the recipe.
Sometimes meal means a big, special event where many people eat together. It often includes many types of food and is for celebrations.
We enjoyed a meal at the wedding.
The meal for the party was very big.
Meal can mean cereals or grain food in a rough, ground state, especially in older texts or farming language. It is food used for animals or in manufacturing.
The horses were fed with a meal of oats.
Meal was scattered in the barn for the animals.
This phrase means to spend more time or make something harder than it needs to be. People use it to say someone is exaggerating the difficulty.
Don’t make a meal of it, it is easy.
She made a meal of fixing the light bulb.
