square meal
UK/skwɛə ˈmiːl/US/skwɛɚ ˈmil/
square meal noun: a (nutritionally) complete and satisfying meal, especially one suitable for a person performing physical labour.
Noun
square meal (plural square meals)
- A (nutritionally) complete and satisfying meal, especially one suitable for a person performing physical labour.
- Three square meals a day should give you plenty of energy.
- Synonyms:
- square
- Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see square, meal.
- [Figure 2.5] Simulation of overheating effects for two meals of different geometries […] Left: square meal (13 cm × 13 cm with corner diameter 2 cm and height 6 cm).2020, B. Wäppling Raaholt, “Influence of food geometry and dielectric properties on heating performance”, in Ulrich Erle, Peter Pesheck, Matthew Lorence, editors, Development of Packaging and...
square meal meaning in Tamil
square meal in Tamil
- நிறை உணவு
Synonyms of square meal
Forms of square meal
| plural | square meals |
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Origin of square meal
From square (“hearty, vigorous”) + meal;
Words that rhyme with square meal
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- keel
- anneal
- creel
- peal
- peel
- sweal
- congeal
- Izmail
- kneel
- meal
- Neale
- streal
- weal
- awheel
- Castile
- cochineal
- feal
- heal
- Lille
- ordeal
- repeal
- sele
- squeal
- teal
- zeal
- ceil
- debile
- dishabille
- hele
- leal
- lifesteal
- Neil
- Niel
- O'Neill
- reveal
- schlemiel
- seel
- she'll
- shiel
- skeel
- spiel
- unseal
- veal
- we'll
- weel
- ye'll
- -meal
- allele
Questions about square meal
- What does square meal mean?
- Square meal means a (nutritionally) complete and satisfying meal, especially one suitable for a person performing physical labour.
- What is square meal in Tamil?
- Square meal in Tamil is நிறை உணவு. See Square meal meaning in Tamil.
- What part of speech is square meal?
- Square meal is a noun.
- How do you pronounce square meal?
- Square meal is pronounced /skwɛə ˈmiːl/ (UK).
- What is the plural of square meal?
- The plural of square meal is square meals.
Words near square meal in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: square meal (page history and authors); square meal (Tamil Wiktionary) (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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