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wholemeal

/ˈhoʊlmiːl/

wholemeal adjective: containing or made from the whole grain, including the bran.

Adjective

wholemeal (not comparable)

  1. Containing or made from the whole grain, including the bran.
    Synonyms:
    wholegrain
    1. (often, specifically) Whole-wheat.

Noun

wholemeal (countable and uncountable, plural wholemeals)

  1. Meal (flour) milled from the whole grain (including the bran): wholemeal flour.
    1. (often, specifically) Whole-wheat flour.
      • Many varieties of wholemeals are made and all wholemeals have been popular for many years. Now, however, the stone-ground meals are coming into favour […]1939, Edmund Baron Bennion, Breadmaking: Its Principles and Practice, page 29
      • As might be expected, the small white loaf was bought mainly by the smaller wholly adult households, who also purchased much more wholemeal, other brown and "other" bread than did any type of family with children.1955, Domestic Food Consumption and Expenditure: Annual Report of the National Food Survey Committee

wholemeal meaning in Urdu and Kannada

wholemeal in Urdu

چوکر ملا کھانا

wholemeal in Kannada

ಆರೋಗ್ಯವಾದ ಭೋಜನ

Synonyms of wholemeal

Forms of wholemeal

pluralwholemeals

Origin of wholemeal

From whole + meal.

Words formed from wholemeal

Phrases with wholemeal

Questions about wholemeal

What does wholemeal mean?
Wholemeal means containing or made from the whole grain, including the bran.
What is wholemeal in Urdu?
Wholemeal in Urdu is چوکر ملا کھانا. See Wholemeal meaning in Urdu.
What part of speech is wholemeal?
Wholemeal can be an adjective or a noun.
How do you pronounce wholemeal?
Wholemeal is pronounced /ˈhoʊlmiːl/.

Words near wholemeal in the dictionary

  1. wholegrains
  2. wholehearted
  3. wholeheartedly
  4. wholeheartedness
  5. wholely
  6. wholemeal
  7. wholemeal bread
  8. wholemeal breads
  9. wholemeals
  10. wholemount
  11. wholemounts

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Adapted from Wiktionary: wholemeal (page history and authors); wholemeal (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); wholemeal (Kannada 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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