meal

Other forms of meal

plural

meals·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about meal

What does meal mean?

meal means "the food served and eaten at one time". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in meal?

meal has 1 syllable: meal. In IPA it is /ˈmil/.

What is another word for meal?

Close synonyms include repast. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is meal a common word?

meal is banded "Common" — everyday vocabulary in speech and writing. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with meal?

3 words rhyme with meal. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.