Meal vs. Dessert

Meal and Dessert Definitions
Meal
The edible whole or coarsely ground grains of a cereal grass.
Dessert
A usually sweet course or dish, as of fruit, ice cream, or pastry, served at the end of a meal.
Meal
A granular substance produced by grinding.
Dessert
Chiefly British Fresh fruit, nuts, or sweetmeats served after the sweet course of a dinner.
Meal
The food served and eaten in one sitting.
Dessert
The last course of a meal, consisting of fruit, sweet confections etc.
I ordered hummus for a starter, a steak as the main course, and chocolate cake for dessert.
Can I see the dessert menu, please?
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Meal
A customary time or occasion of eating food.
Dessert
A sweet dish or confection served as the last course of a meal.
Trifle is a favourite dessert of the English, but rivalled by pavlova in Australia and New Zealand.
Meal
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Dessert
A service of pastry, fruits, or sweetmeats, at the close of a feast or entertainment; pastry, fruits, etc., forming the last course at dinner.
"An 't please your honor," quoth the peasant,"This same dessert is not so pleasant."
Meal
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Dessert
A dish served as the last course of a meal
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Meal
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Meal
(countable) Food that is prepared and eaten, usually at a specific time, and usually in a comparatively large quantity (as opposed to a snack).
Breakfast is the morning meal, lunch is the noon meal, and dinner, or supper, is the evening meal.
Meal
(countable) Food served or eaten as a repast.
Meal
A break taken by a police officer in order to eat.
Meal
(obsolete) A time or an occasion.
Meal
The coarse-ground edible part of various grains often used to feed animals; flour or a coarser blend than flour.
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Meal
A speck or spot.
Meal
A part; a fragment; a portion.
Meal
To yield or be plentiful in meal.
Meal
(transitive) To defile or taint.
Meal
A part; a fragment; a portion.
Meal
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.
What strange fishHath made his meal on thee?
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.
Meal
Any substance that is coarsely pulverized like meal, but not granulated.
Meal
To sprinkle with, or as with, meal.
Meal
To pulverize; as, mealed powder.
Meal
The food served and eaten at one time
Meal
Any of the occasions for eating food that occur by custom or habit at more or less fixed times
Meal
Coarsely ground foodstuff; especially seeds of various cereal grasses or pulse