At hospitals and clinics across the nation, chances are good that people with HIV/AIDS seeking treatment will meet with their doctors in outpatient settings â going to scheduled appointments for what have become routine visits.
Freebase(5.00 / 1 vote)Rate this definition: Meal. A meal is an instance of eating, specifically one that takes place at a specific time and includes specific, prepared food. Meals occur primarily at homes, restaurants, and cafeterias, but may occur anywhere.
Words for meals in English are: breakfast: first meal of the day, eaten in the morning. lunch: a meal eaten around noon. supper: a meal eaten in the evening. dinner: the biggest meal of the day. For most Americans that's the same as supper, though some people have their big meal at lunch time and so call that dinner. brunch: a meal too late to normally be called breakfast and too early to be lunch, and/or which takes the place of breakfast and lunch. There is no commonly-used word for a late lunch or early dinner or supper. Dinner times vary pretty widely. A big meal eaten anywhere between about 5:00 pm and 10:00 pm would routinely be called supper or dinner and no one would consider that strange.