Definition of meal

• n. - A part; a fragment; a portion.
• n. - The portion of food taken at a particular time for the satisfaction of appetite; the quantity usually taken at one time with the purpose of satisfying hunger; a repast; the act or time of eating a meal; as, the traveler has not eaten a good meal for a week; there was silence during the meal.
• n. - Grain (esp. maize, rye, or oats) that is coarsely ground and unbolted; also, a kind of flour made from beans, pease, etc.; sometimes, any flour, esp. if coarse.
• n. - Any substance that is coarsely pulverized like meal, but not granulated.
• v. t. - To sprinkle with, or as with, meal.
• v. t. - To pulverize; as, mealed powder.