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mealtide

mealtide noun: the tide or time when one receives their part, portion, or measure of food; the hour for a meal; mealtime.

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
    • At Sandwich, ‘mine host Gyllam De La Towr’ was paid 6s 8d ‘for our mealtides from Sunday till Friday’.2002, Alison Hanham, The Celys and Their World

Forms of mealtide

pluralmealtides
alternative formmeal-tide
alternative formmeal tide

Origin of mealtide

From Middle English meeletide, equivalent to meal + -tide (“time, period, hour”). Compare Dutch maaltijd, German Mahlzeit, Icelandic máltíð.

Questions about mealtide

What does mealtide mean?
Mealtide means the tide or time when one receives their part, portion, or measure of food; the hour for a meal; mealtime.
What part of speech is mealtide?
Mealtide is a noun.
What is the plural of mealtide?
The plural of mealtide is mealtides.

Words near mealtide in the dictionary

  1. mealpreps
  2. meals
  3. meals on wheels
  4. mealsful
  5. Mealsgate
  6. mealtide
  7. mealtides
  8. mealtime
  9. mealtimes
  10. mealware
  11. mealworm

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