"mealtime" meaning in English

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Noun

Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Wodencafe-mealtime.wav [US] Forms: mealtimes [plural]
Etymology: From Middle English meeltime, from Old English mǣltīma (“mealtime”), equivalent to meal + time. Compare mealtide, Old English mǣltīd (“mealtime”), Dutch maaltijd (“meal”), German Mahlzeit (“meal, mealtime”), Danish måltid (“meal, mealtime”), Icelandic máltíð (“meal”), Icelandic matmálstími (“mealtime”). Etymology templates: {{inh|en|enm|meeltime}} Middle English meeltime, {{inh|en|ang|mǣltīma||mealtime}} Old English mǣltīma (“mealtime”), {{compound|en|meal|time}} meal + time, {{m|en|mealtide}} mealtide, {{cog|ang|mǣltīd||mealtime}} Old English mǣltīd (“mealtime”), {{cog|nl|maaltijd||meal}} Dutch maaltijd (“meal”), {{cog|de|Mahlzeit||meal, mealtime}} German Mahlzeit (“meal, mealtime”), {{cog|da|måltid||meal, mealtime}} Danish måltid (“meal, mealtime”), {{cog|is|máltíð||meal}} Icelandic máltíð (“meal”), {{cog|is|matmálstími||mealtime}} Icelandic matmálstími (“mealtime”) Head templates: {{en-noun|~}} mealtime (countable and uncountable, plural mealtimes)
  1. The appointed time at which a meal is served or eaten. Tags: countable, uncountable Categories (topical): Food and drink, Times of day Synonyms: mealtide Hyponyms: breakfast-time, lunchtime, teatime, dinnertime, suppertime Translations (time at which a meal is eaten): време за хранене (vreme za hranene) [neuter] (Bulgarian), 進餐時間 (Chinese Mandarin), 进餐时间 (jìncān shíjiān) (Chinese Mandarin), etenstijd [masculine] (Dutch), ruoka-aika (Finnish), molzait [feminine] (Mòcheno), tlacualizpan (Nahuatl), mål [neuter] (Norwegian Bokmål), måltid [neuter] (Norwegian Bokmål)

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