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{
"term": "meal",
"partOfSpeech": "noun",
"ox3000": true,
"cefr": "a1",
"definitions": [
{
"senseNumber": 1,
"definition": "an occasion when people eat food, especially breakfast, lunch or dinner",
"labels": "(especially British English)British EnglishBritish English(especially British English)(British English)(especially North American English)(especially British English)(North American English)",
"cefr": "a1",
"ox3000": true,
"examples": [
{
"text": "Try not to eat between meals."
},
{
"text": "Lunch is his main meal of the day."
},
{
"text": "to **go out for a meal** *(= to go to a restaurant to have a meal)*"
},
{
"text": "What time would you like your evening meal?"
},
{
"text": "I'm so busy I have to snatch meals when I can."
},
{
"text": "The family was always noisy at meal times."
}
],
"topics": ["Cooking and eating"],
"collocations": {
"adjective": ["big", "filling", "heavy"]
}
},
{
"senseNumber": 2,
"definition": "the food that is eaten at a meal",
"cefr": "a1",
"ox3000": true,
"examples": [
{
"text": "Enjoy your meal."
},
{
"text": "a three-course meal"
},
{
"text": "They are learning to cook simple, healthy meals."
},
{
"text": "Hot meals are not available after 10 o'clock."
},
{
"text": "Thanks for a delicious meal."
},
{
"text": "I always want to go to sleep after a heavy meal."
},
{
"text": "That night he made her favourite meal."
},
{
"text": "The bar serves light meals."
},
{
"text": "a meagre meal of bread and cheese"
},
{
"text": "She has very little time to prepare home-cooked meals."
},
{
"text": "60 pupils qualified for free school meals."
},
{
"text": "There's a growing reliance on processed food and ready meals."
},
{
"text": "The centre offers snacks and a hot midday meal."
}
],
"collocations": {
"adjective": ["big", "filling", "heavy"]
}
},
{
"senseNumber": 3,
"definition": "grain that has been made into a powder, used as food for animals and for making flour",
"cefr": "c2",
"examples": [],
"topics": ["Farming", "Food"]
},
{
"senseNumber": null,
"definition": "to spend a lot of time, energy, etc. doing something in a way that other people think is unnecessary and/or annoying",
"labels": "(informal)",
"examples": [
{
"text": "Why do you have to make such a meal of everything?"
}
]
},
{
"senseNumber": null,
"definition": "a good meal that satisfies your hunger",
"examples": [
{
"text": "He looks as though he hasn't had a square meal for weeks."
}
]
}
],
"pronunciations": {
"uk": [
{
"pronunciation": "/miːl/",
"audio": "me/meal/meal__gb_1.mp3"
}
],
"us": [
{
"pronunciation": "/miːl/",
"audio": "me/meal/meal__us_1.mp3"
}
]
},
"wordOrigin": "noun senses 1 to 2 Old English mǣl (also in the sense ‘measure’, surviving in words such as piecemeal ‘measure taken at one time’), of Germanic origin. The early sense of meal involved a notion of “fixed time”; compare with Dutch maal ‘meal, (portion of) time’ and German Mal ‘time’, Mahl ‘meal’, from an Indo-European root meaning ‘to measure’.noun sense 3 Old English melu, meolo, of Germanic origin; related to Dutch meel and German Mehl, from an Indo-European root shared by Latin molere ‘to grind’."
}