Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

foremeal

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: fore-meal
IPA

13

Scrabble Score

8

Letters

2

Syllables

7

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A meal eaten early or prior to some other activity.

Countable; Uncountable

Example Sentences

"In other words, this fore-meal must be allowed and practised, he insists that it shall be so regulated as not to give rise to the evils of which he complains. But does Paul in fact approve of this fore-meal at all?"
"As this feeding experiment <>, we have developed the following method: before a meal, a so-called foremeal is given, consisting of propeptans (these are specially prepared, decomposed foods of the same sort) whereby the effects of the suspected food are completely nullified."
"We're awakened early in the morning to eat foremeal, followed by several hours of training."

Etymology

From fore- + meal.

Word Breakdown

Prefix: fore-

Usage

Inflected Forms

foremeals (plural) fore-meal (alternative)

Questions

What does foremeal mean?: A meal eaten early or prior to some other activity.
Where does foremeal come from?: From fore- + meal.

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