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The only meeting where everyone shows up early and nobody checks their phone (ideally).
means The time set aside for eating a meal, especially as a regular daily occasion.
from A simple compound of 'meal' (from Old English 'mǣl', originally meaning a fixed time or occasion, and only later narrowing to mean 'food eaten at that time') plus 'time'. So 'mealtime' is a little redundant at its root — it literally means 'time-time' — a fossil of an era when 'meal' itself was about the clock, not the plate.
- origin
- meal once meant measure, not food
- biology
- your stomach runs on a learned clock, not hunger
- ritual power
- shared meals sync families more than shared chats
- modern twist
- average american eats one meal alone daily