Synonyms of the word

meal

• n. Food that is prepared and eaten, usually at a specific time (e.g. breakfast = morning meal, lunch = noon…
• n. Food served or eaten as a repast.
• n. (obsolete) A time or an occasion.
• n. The coarse-ground edible part of various grains often used to feed animals; flour or a coarser blend than…
• n. (Britain dialectal) A speck or spot.
• n. A part; a fragment; a portion.
• v. (transitive) To defile or taint.

aliment

• n. (now rare) Food.
• n. (figuratively) Nourishment, sustenance.
• n. (Scotland) An allowance for maintenance; alimony.
• v. (obsolete) To feed, nourish.
• v. To sustain, support.

alimentation

• n. feeding, being fed; the provision of food and other necessities.

foodstuff

• n. A material that may be used as food.

nourishment

• n. The act of nourishing or the state of being nourished.
• n. Something that nourishes; food.

nutriment

• n. A source of nourishment; food.
• n. Something that promotes growth or development; a nutrient.

nutrition

• n. (biology) The organic process by which an organism assimilates food and uses it for growth and maintenance.

occasion

• n. A favorable opportunity; a convenient or timely chance.
• n. The time when something happens.
• n. An occurrence or state of affairs which causes some event or reaction; a motive or reason.
• n. Something which causes something else; a cause.
• n. (obsolete) An occurrence or incident.
• n. A particular happening; an instance or time when something occurred.
• n. Need; requirement, necessity.
• n. A special event or function.
• n. A reason or excuse; a motive; a persuasion.
• v. (transitive) To cause; to produce; to induce.

repast

• n. (now literary) A meal.
• n. (uncountable) The food eaten at a meal.
• v. (obsolete, transitive) To supply food to; to feast.
• v. (obsolete, intransitive) To take food.

sustenance

• n. Something that provides support or nourishment.

victuals

• n. plural of victual.
• v. Third-person singular simple present indicative form of victual.