MEALTIME

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does mealtime mean? 

• MEALTIME (noun)
  The noun MEALTIME has 1 sense:

1. the hour at which a meal is habitually or customarily eaten

  Familiarity information: MEALTIME used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• MEALTIME (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The hour at which a meal is habitually or customarily eaten

Classified under:

Nouns denoting time and temporal relations

Hypernyms ("mealtime" is a kind of...):

hour; time of day (clock time)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "mealtime"):

breakfast time (the customary or habitual hour for eating breakfast)

lunch period; lunchtime (the customary or habitual hour for eating lunch)

dinnertime; suppertime (the customary or habitual hour for the evening meal)

 Context examples 

Typically administered twice a day, insulin 70/30 controls postprandial glycemia and allows convenient mealtime dosing.

(Insulin, 70/30, NCI Thesaurus)

He was quite sane, yet he hated those men at mealtime.

(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)