meal: meaning and words from its letters
4 letters · 6 letter points · starts with M · ends with L
Meaning of meal
noun
- countable
Food that is prepared and eaten, usually at a specific time, and usually in a comparatively large quantity.
Example: Breakfast is the morning meal, lunch is the noon meal, and dinner, or supper, is the evening meal.
- countable
Food served or eaten as a repast.
- informal, uncountable
A break taken by a police officer in order to eat.
- countable, obsolete
A time or an occasion.
Listed forms: meals.
Source: Wiktionary — meal.
noun
- countable, uncountable
The ground-up edible part of various grains, used as a basis of food or feed; either flour or a coarser blend than flour (usage varies).
- countable, uncountable
Any of various similarly granular materials prepared from other sources, such as bones or wood.
- countable, uncountable
Any of various other granular or powdery materials, either ground by humans or occurring in nature, named figuratively after a resemblance to grain meal.
Listed forms: meals.
Source: Wiktionary — meal.
verb
- intransitive, obsolete
To yield or be plentiful in meal.
Listed forms: meals, mealing, mealed.
Source: Wiktionary — meal.
Adapted from Wiktionary contributors via Kaikki.org. Selected senses and forms; quotations omitted. Definition text is CC BY-SA 4.0.
Synonyms by meaning
Words are grouped by sense, so they are not necessarily interchangeable in every context. Search synonyms for meal.
noun
the food served and eaten at one time
Open English WordNet Team, 2025, derived from Princeton University WordNet; selected synonym groups under CC BY 4.0. Source · OEWN notice · Princeton notice.
Is meal in our word lists?
| Word list | Status |
|---|---|
| American English | Found |
| British English | Found |
| Extended English | Found |
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Letter-value score of meal
M(3) + E(1) + A(1) + L(1) = 6 points.
This is a sum of letter values without board bonuses or word multipliers. A blank tile is worth zero: subtract the value of each letter supplied by a blank. The score does not establish game validity. Full letter-value table.
Anagrams of meal
2 other standard-list words use exactly these letters, including repeated letters.
Shorter words from meal
15 shorter standard-list words can be made using no letter more often than it occurs in meal. Showing up to 24, longest first.