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meal-tide

meal-tide is the alternative form of mealtide.

Meaning of mealtide

Noun

mealtide (countable and uncountable, plural mealtides)

  1. (archaic) The tide or time when one receives their part, portion, or measure of food; the hour for a meal; mealtime.
    • Bleeding at heart is he Who has to ask For food at every mealtide.1903, Ottilia Adelina Liljencrantz, The ward of King Canute

Forms of meal-tide

pluralmeal-tides

Questions about meal-tide

What is meal-tide the alternative form of?
Meal-tide is the alternative form of mealtide.

Words near meal-tide in the dictionary

  1. meal-mouthed
  2. meal-pock
  3. meal-pocks
  4. meal-poke
  5. meal-pokes
  6. meal-tide
  7. meal-tides
  8. mealable
  9. mealbag
  10. mealbags
  11. mealbeetle

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Adapted from Wiktionary: meal-tide (page history and authors); mealtide (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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