How to pronounce meal
American English pronunciation
MEEL
- IPA
- /ˈmil/
- Syllables
- MEEL (1 syllable)
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What meal means
Most people know meal in its everyday sense. Here's its other meaning.
Grain ground into a rough powder
In a sentence: The old mill ground the corn into a rough yellow meal for making bread.
Where it comes from: It comes from the Old English word melu, meaning flour, from an old root meaning to grind. It is a different word from the meal you eat, which first meant a set time.
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