repast

Other forms of repast

plural

repasts·

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 repast

What does repast mean?

repast means "the food served and eaten at one time".

How many syllables are in repast?

repast has 2 syllables: re-past. The stress falls on "re".

What is another word for repast?

Close synonyms include meal. 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 repast a common word?

repast is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.