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noun
A meal.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: archaic, countable, literary, uncountable
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Synonyms: refection, meal, mese, repast
Antonyms: none provided
noun
A period of refreshment or rest.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, obsolete, uncountable
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noun
Food or drink that may be consumed as a meal.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: archaic, countable, uncountable
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noun
Something that is intellectually or spiritually nourishing.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: archaic, countable, figuratively, uncountable
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Synonyms: refection
Antonyms: none provided
noun
The consumption of food; also, refreshment obtained from eating; (generally) refreshment; rest.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, obsolete, uncountable
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Synonyms: refection
Antonyms: none provided
verb
To supply (an animal or person) with food; to feed.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: archaic, transitive
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verb
To provide (a person) with intellectual or spiritual nourishment; to enlighten, to feed.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: archaic, figuratively, transitive
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verb
To refresh (oneself or someone) through eating and drinking.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: also, obsolete, reflexive, transitive
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verb
Usually followed by on or upon: to take food and drink; to feast, to feed.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: also, figuratively, intransitive, obsolete
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noun
the food served and eaten at one time
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Synonyms: meal
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: nutriment, nourishment, nutrition, sustenance, aliment, alimentation, victuals
Narrower terms: mess, square meal, potluck, refection, breakfast, brunch, lunch, luncheon, tiffin, dejeuner, tea, afternoon tea, teatime, dinner, supper, buffet, picnic, bite, collation, snack, nosh-up, ploughman's lunch, banquet, feast, spread
History
From Middle English repast, repaste (“feast, meal; food, nourishment; the Eucharist; refreshment, rest”) [and other forms], from Anglo-Norman, Middle French, Old French repast, Middle French, Old French repas (“meal, repast; spiritual nourishment”) (modern French repas), probably from Medieval Latin, Late Latin repastus (“meal”), from repāstus, the perfect passive participle of repāscō (“to feed; to feed one after another”), from Latin re- (prefix meaning ‘again’) + pāscō (“to feed, nourish; to pasture (an animal); of an animal: to browse, graze; to maintain, support”) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *peh2- (“to protect; to shepherd”)).
Partly: * from Middle English repasten (“(reflexive) to refresh (oneself) with food”) [and other forms], either from repast, repaste (“feast, meal; food, nourishment; the Eucharist; refreshment, rest”) + -en (suffix forming the infinitive forms of verbs); or from Late Latin repāstus, the perfect passive participle of repāscō (“to feed; to feed one after another”) (see further at etymology 1); and * from repast (noun).
Across languages
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