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What is the difference between repast and meal?

repast | meal |

As nouns the difference between repast and meal

is that repast is a meal while meal is (food that is prepared and eaten)Food that is prepared and eaten, usually at a specific time (e.g. breakfast = morning meal, lunch = noon meal, etc).

As verbs the difference between repast and meal

is that repast is to supply food to; to feast while meal is to defile or taint.

repast

English

Noun

  • (countable) A meal.
  • * Milton
    • From dance to sweet repast they turn.
  • * 1908 ,
    • When at last they were thoroughly toasted, the Badger summoned them to the table, where he had been busy laying a repast .
  • * 2010 ,
    • "'Tis true, tonight I ate my last of the royal repast ."
  • (uncountable) The food eaten at a meal.
  • * Shakespeare
    • Go and get me some repast .

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • (obsolete) To supply food to; to feast.
  • * Shakespeare
    • Repast them with my blood.
  • (obsolete) To take food.
  • * Milton
    • He then, also, as before, left arbitrary the dieting and repasting of our minds.

    Anagrams

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    meal

    English

    Etymology 1

    From (etyl), from (etyl) .

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (senseid)Food that is prepared and eaten, usually at a specific time (e.g. breakfast = morning meal, lunch = noon meal, etc).
  • * {{quote-magazine, year=2013, month=July-August, author=(Henry Petroski)
    • , title= Geothermal Energy , volume=101, issue=4, magazine=(American Scientist) , passage=Energy has seldom been found where we need it when we want it. Ancient nomads, wishing to ward off the evening chill and enjoy a meal around a campfire, had to collect wood and then spend time and effort coaxing the heat of friction out from between sticks to kindle a flame. With more settled people, animals were harnessed to capstans or caged in treadmills to turn grist into meal.}}
  • Food served or eaten as a repast.
  • * {{quote-magazine, year=2012, month=March-April, author=Anna Lena Phillips, volume=100, issue=2, page=172
    • , magazine=(American Scientist) , title= Sneaky Silk Moths , passage=Last spring, the periodical cicadas emerged across eastern North America. Their vast numbers and short above-ground life spans inspired awe and irritation in humans—and made for good meals for birds and small mammals.}}
    Hyponyms
    * See also
    Derived terms
    * make a meal of * meal mob * meal station * meal ticket

    Etymology 2

    From (etyl) mele, from (etyl) . More at (l).

    Noun

    (-)
  • The coarse-ground edible part of various grains often used to feed animals; flour.
  • * {{quote-magazine, year=2013, month=July-August, author=(Henry Petroski)
    • , title= Geothermal Energy , volume=101, issue=4, magazine=(American Scientist) , passage=Ancient nomads, wishing to ward off the evening chill and enjoy a meal around a campfire, had to collect wood and then spend time and effort coaxing the heat of friction out from between sticks to kindle a flame. With more settled people, animals were harnessed to capstans or caged in treadmills to turn grist into meal .}}
    Derived terms
    * mealy * cornmeal * oatmeal

    Etymology 3

    Variation of mole (compare (etyl) mail), from (etyl) mole, mool, from (etyl) . More at (l).

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A speck or spot.
  • A part; a fragment; a portion.

    • Verb

    (en verb)
  • To defile or taint.
    • Were he meal'd with that / Which he corrects, than were he tyrannous. ? Shakespeare.

    Anagrams

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