evening meal

collocation in English

meaningsofeveningandmeal

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evening
noun[C or U]
uk
/ˈiːv.nɪŋ/
us
/ˈiːv.nɪŋ/
the part of the day between the end of the afternoon ...
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meal
noun
uk
/mɪəl/
us
/mɪəl/
an occasion when food is eaten, or the food that is eaten on such ...
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(Definition ofeveningandmealfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofevening meal

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The first shows a couple at the table enjoying aneveningmeal.
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Subjects commenced with one tablet daily taken with theeveningmeal.
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They are injected twice daily at breakfast andeveningmealtimes.
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Any food intake commencing after this time was considered to be calorie intake after theeveningmeal.
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Generally four meals were taken each day but three families had only three meals, omitting the lateeveningmeal.
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They might not even come in for theeveningmeal.
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One in six does not have a cookedeveningmeal.
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Breakfast,eveningmealand weekly linen service provided.
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What are "reasonable times" for breakfast or aneveningmeal?
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For nearly a year she managed there, with daily home help and my sisters cooking hereveningmealon a rota organised on the web.
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The recordings are 10-minute weekly snippets of relaxed, natural family communications around the dinner table, usually at theeveningmeal.
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Measures showing significant improvement included clinical global severity ratings, quality of life ratings, frequency of nocturnal eating and awakenings, and caloric intake after theeveningmeal.
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For farming and small-town families at the beginning of the century, the heaviest meal of the day was served at noon, and theeveningmealwas lighter.
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The instructions already prescribe the provision of aneveningmealon return to camp.
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Indeed, one can provide not only breakfast but aneveningmealon a tray.
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There is no obligation to provide a good quality breakfast andeveningmeal.
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A morning andeveningmealis provided and blankets are issued at night.
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The three courseeveningmealis also being reduced to two courses.
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They bought barely enough for oneeveningmeal, let alone for a weekend.
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He comes home to hiseveningmeal, and he goes out again.
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For a while this year the children were given sandwiches for theireveningmeal.
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It is theeveningmealof children.
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Nightly theatrical performances followed theeveningmeal.
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A luncheon andeveningmealwere served in his honor.
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