Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun meal

3 senses of meal

Sense 1
meal, repast -- (the food served and eaten at one time)
       => nutriment, nourishment, nutrition, sustenance, aliment, alimentation, victuals -- (a source of materials to nourish the body)

Sense 2
meal -- (any of the occasions for eating food that occur by custom or habit at more or less fixed times)
       => occasion -- (the time of a particular event; "on the occasion of his 60th birthday")

Sense 3
meal -- (coarsely ground foodstuff; especially seeds of various cereal grasses or pulse)
       => foodstuff, food product -- (a substance that can be used or prepared for use as food)