meals
- 1Plural of meal.
The flight attendants served hot meals shortly after takeoff.
She prepares all her meals on Sunday to save time during the week.
Note
A plural that serves two quite different nouns. Most often it counts occasions of eating, as in three meals a day. But meal is also ground grain, or a similar granular material made from bones or wood. In that sense the plural names kinds rather than portions, as in different meals for different feeds. The police officer's meal break is uncountable and takes no plural at all.
meals is a form of meal
meal, noun: Food prepared and eaten on one occasion, usually at a regular time of day and more substantial than a snack; also, the occasion of eating it. Full entry
- Forms
- mealmeals plural
- Spelling
- meal → meals: add -s
- Sound
- The ending sounds like /z/.
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