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meal

 
 
/miːl/ noun [C]

Translation

when you eat, or the food that you eat at that time
öğün, yemek
a three-course meal You should come round for a meal sometime.851
make a meal of sth UK to spend more time and energy doing something than is necessary
...a/e gereğinden çok çaba ve zaman harcamak
A simple apology will do. There's no need to make a meal of it!1843
→ See also a square meal
(Definition of meal noun from the Cambridge Learner's Dictionary English-Turkish © Cambridge University Press)

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