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REPAST
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
The food served and eaten at one time
Synonyms:
meal; repast
Classified under:
Nouns denoting foods and drinks
Hypernyms ("repast" is a kind of...):
aliment; alimentation; nourishment; nutriment; nutrition; sustenance; victuals (a source of materials to nourish the body)
Meronyms (parts of "repast"):
entremets; side dish; side order (a dish that is served with, but is subordinate to, a main course)
sandwich (two (or more) slices of bread with a filling between them)
helping; portion; serving (an individual quantity of food or drink taken as part of a meal)
dish (a particular item of prepared food)
course (part of a meal served at one time)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "repast"):
mess (a meal eaten in a mess hall by service personnel)
square meal (a substantial and nourishing meal)
potluck (whatever happens to be available especially when offered to an unexpected guest or when brought by guests and shared by all)
refection (a light meal or repast)
breakfast (the first meal of the day (usually in the morning))
brunch (combination breakfast and lunch; usually served in late morning)
dejeuner; lunch; luncheon; tiffin (a midday meal)
afternoon tea; tea; teatime (a light midafternoon meal of tea and sandwiches or cakes)
dinner (the main meal of the day served in the evening or at midday)
supper (a light evening meal; served in early evening if dinner is at midday or served late in the evening at bedtime)
buffet (a meal set out on a buffet at which guests help themselves)
picnic (any informal meal eaten outside or on an excursion)
bite; collation; snack (a light informal meal)
nosh-up (a large satisfying meal)
ploughman's lunch (a meal consisting of a sandwich of bread and cheese and a salad)
banquet; feast; spread (a meal that is well prepared and greatly enjoyed)
Context examples:
Congratulating himself that a handsome repast had been ordered that morning, feeling sure that it would be ready to the minute, and indulging in pleasant anticipations of the charming effect it would produce, when his pretty wife came running out to meet him, he escorted his friend to his mansion, with the irrepressible satisfaction of a young host and husband.
(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)
Do you suppose I eat like an ogre or a ghoul, that you dread being the companion of my repast?
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
We sat before a little fire, with two bricks put within the rusted grate, one on each side, to prevent its burning too many coals; until another debtor, who shared the room with Mr. Micawber, came in from the bakehouse with the loin of mutton which was our joint-stock repast.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
It was well I secured this forage, or both she, I, and Sophie, to whom I conveyed a share of our repast, would have run a chance of getting no dinner at all: every one downstairs was too much engaged to think of us.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
If I had permitted him, I am satisfied that Traddles would have made a perfect savage of himself, and eaten a plateful of raw meat, to express enjoyment of the repast; but I would hear of no such immolation on the altar of friendship, and we had a course of bacon instead; there happening, by good fortune, to be cold bacon in the larder.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
I saw a universal manifestation of discontent when the fumes of the repast met the nostrils of those destined to swallow it; from the van of the procession, the tall girls of the first class, rose the whispered words—Disgusting! The porridge is burnt again!
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
