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Definition 2024
-meal
-meal
See also: meal
English
Suffix
-meal
- (rare or no longer productive) Used to denote a fixed number, measure, or amount at a time.
- wordmeal (“one word at a time, word by word”)
Derived terms
- bitmeal
- dropmeal
- flockmeal
- heapmeal
- leafmeal
- littlemeal
- pagemeal
- piecemeal
- stepmeal
- stoundmeal
- thousandmeal
- whilemeal
- wordmeal
Etymology 2
From Middle English mele, from Old English melu (“meal, flour”), from Proto-Germanic *melwą (“meal, flour”), from Proto-Indo-European *mel-, *mol(w)ə- (“to grind, mill”). More at meal.
Suffix
-meal
- Denotes a powder made of ground cereal.