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stoundmeal

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables
stound-meal
IPA
13
Scrabble Score
10
Letters
2
Syllables
10
Unique Chars

Meaning

adv

At times; at intervals

Obsolete

adv

Moment by moment, or from moment to moment.

Obsolete

adj

Occurring at times or intervals.

Obsolete

Etymology

From Middle English stoundmele, stoundemele, from Old English stundmǣlum (“at times”), from stund (“stound, space of time”) + mǣlum, dative plural of mǣl (“a time”), equivalent to stound + -meal. More at stound, meal.

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Usage

Inflected Forms

more stoundmeal (comparative) most stoundmeal (superlative)

Questions

What does stoundmeal mean?
At times; at intervals
Where does stoundmeal come from?
It is traced to Middle English.

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