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How to spell meal

Meal is spelled M-E-A-L.

hear itmeal/mil/nounRules and real life

What it means: Food served and eaten at one time.

In a sentence: We had a delicious meal at grandma's house.

Same family: mealtime, mealplan, breakfast, lunch, dinner. If you can spell one, the shared part carries to the others.

Where it comes from: Meal comes from Old English 'mǣl', which originally meant a fixed time or occasion, especially for eating. Over time, the meaning shifted from the time of eating to the food itself eaten at that time.

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