meals

noun

plural of meal
as in menus
food eaten or prepared for eating at one time all she wants to do is sit quietly after the large Thanksgiving meal

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Recent Examples of meals Food and drink Some guests at Kapano and Dithaba may choose to visit Lelapo for meals (the menu is the same everywhere). — Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 5 Nov. 2026 The novel attends to their quiet conversations, their modest meals, their everyday work, whether caring for the sick, staffing a thrift shop or demolishing a silo. — Literary Hub, 5 Nov. 2026 Critics of the World’s 50 Best have raised questions around its voting practices, which do not demand that voters pay for their own meals. — Sam Stone, Bon Appetit Magazine, 5 Nov. 2026 That could be useful, as would the family members more readily suggesting the small, vital, inexpensive additions that give meals far more character. — Bill Addison, Los Angeles Times, 5 Nov. 2026 All employees also get free parking and meals, as well as discounts, training and advancement opportunities. — Don Sweeney, Sacbee.com, 4 Nov. 2026 Bishopp has also called for a moratorium on new for-profit charter schools, free meals for all public school students and increased per-pupil spending and funding for special needs programs. — Charlotte Observer, 4 Nov. 2026 The Clean Water Fund gets, on average, $25 million to $30 million each year from the state’s rooms and meals tax, a surcharge applied to some property transfers and deposit money that consumers pay on cans and bottles. — Jonathan Mingle, ProPublica, 4 Nov. 2026 Kroger partnered with the San Francisco company in 2022 but initially allowed the company to deliver only flowers, sushi and prepared meals from a limited number of stores. — ABC News, 29 Oct. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for meals
  1. menus
  2. dinners
  3. lunches
Noun
  • A lot of places are putting lasagna on menus, specifically the Italian style with bechamel, parmesan, and a meat ragu.
    — John Kessler, Chicago Tribune, 3 Nov. 2026
  • Organizers will provide desserts and appetizers throughout the evening, and the brewery’s food and drink menus will be available for purchases.
    — Camila Pedrosa, Sacbee.com, 2 Nov. 2026
Definition of menus
Noun
  • At first there was just some casual small talk between them, then walks with their dogs, followed by dinners at pubs away from prying eyes and, finally, evenings spent cooking together.
    — Stefania Conrieri, Vanity Fair, 4 Nov. 2026
  • Spread out across expansive work stations that resemble gleaming kitchen cubicles, chefs spend their days whipping up meals from soup to nuts, a laboratory of sorts to create appetizing and easy dinners to make at home.
    — Robert Channick, Chicago Tribune, 2 Nov. 2026
Definition of dinners
Noun
  • Changes to school lunches These school nutrition directors were surveyed in October 2025, and since then, additional factors may threaten the robustness of school lunch programs.
    — Sasha Rogelberg, Fortune, 29 Apr. 2026
  • Those types of lunches were later served on lunch wagons and, finally, in restaurants like Ono Hawaiian BBQ.
    — Jake Harris, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 28 Oct. 2025
Definition of lunches

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