Meal vs. Dessert

The edible whole or coarsely ground grains of a cereal grass.

A usually sweet course or dish, as of fruit, ice cream, or pastry, served at the end of a meal.

A granular substance produced by grinding.

Chiefly British Fresh fruit, nuts, or sweetmeats served after the sweet course of a dinner.

The food served and eaten in one sitting.

The last course of a meal, consisting of fruit, sweet confections etc.

A customary time or occasion of eating food.

A sweet dish or confection served as the last course of a meal.

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A service of pastry, fruits, or sweetmeats, at the close of a feast or entertainment; pastry, fruits, etc., forming the last course at dinner.

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A dish served as the last course of a meal

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(countable) Food that is prepared and eaten, usually at a specific time, and usually in a comparatively large quantity (as opposed to a snack).

(countable) Food served or eaten as a repast.

A break taken by a police officer in order to eat.

(obsolete) A time or an occasion.

The coarse-ground edible part of various grains often used to feed animals; flour or a coarser blend than flour.

A speck or spot.

A part; a fragment; a portion.

To yield or be plentiful in meal.

(transitive) To defile or taint.

A part; a fragment; a portion.

The portion of food taken at a particular time for the satisfaction of appetite; the quantity usually taken at one time with the purpose of satisfying hunger; a repast; the act or time of eating a meal; as, the traveler has not eaten a good meal for a week; there was silence during the meal.

Grain (esp. maize, rye, or oats) that is coarsely ground and unbolted; also, a kind of flour made from beans, pease, etc.; sometimes, any flour, esp. if coarse.

Any substance that is coarsely pulverized like meal, but not granulated.

To sprinkle with, or as with, meal.

To pulverize; as, mealed powder.

The food served and eaten at one time

Any of the occasions for eating food that occur by custom or habit at more or less fixed times

Coarsely ground foodstuff; especially seeds of various cereal grasses or pulse