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MEALTIME
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
The hour at which a meal is habitually or customarily eaten
Classified under:
Nouns denoting time and temporal relations
Hypernyms ("mealtime" is a kind of...):
hour; time of day (clock time)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "mealtime"):
breakfast time (the customary or habitual hour for eating breakfast)
lunch period; lunchtime (the customary or habitual hour for eating lunch)
dinnertime; suppertime (the customary or habitual hour for the evening meal)