REPAST

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does repast mean? 

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

1. the food served and eaten at one time

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• REPAST (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The food served and eaten at one time

Classified under:

Nouns denoting foods and drinks

Synonyms:

meal; repast

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

aliment; alimentation; nourishment; nutriment; nutrition; sustenance; victuals (a source of materials to nourish the body)

Meronyms (parts of "repast"):

entremets; side dish; side order (a dish that is served with, but is subordinate to, a main course)

sandwich (two (or more) slices of bread with a filling between them)

course (part of a meal served at one time)

helping; portion; serving (an individual quantity of food or drink taken as part of a meal)

dish (a particular item of prepared food)

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

mess (a meal eaten in a mess hall by service personnel)

square meal (a substantial and nourishing meal)

potluck (whatever happens to be available especially when offered to an unexpected guest or when brought by guests and shared by all)

refection (a light meal or repast)

breakfast (the first meal of the day (usually in the morning))

brunch (combination breakfast and lunch; usually served in late morning)

dejeuner; lunch; luncheon; tiffin (a midday meal)

afternoon tea; tea; teatime (a light midafternoon meal of tea and sandwiches or cakes)

dinner (the main meal of the day served in the evening or at midday)

supper (a light evening meal; served in early evening if dinner is at midday or served late in the evening at bedtime)

buffet (a meal set out on a buffet at which guests help themselves)

picnic (any informal meal eaten outside or on an excursion)

bite; collation; snack (a light informal meal)

nosh-up (a large satisfying meal)

ploughman's lunch (a meal consisting of a sandwich of bread and cheese and a salad)

banquet; feast; spread (a meal that is well prepared and greatly enjoyed)

 Context examples 

Summoning Mary, I soon had the room in more cheerful order: I prepared him, likewise, a comfortable repast.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

Sometimes, when nature, overcome by hunger, sank under the exhaustion, a repast was prepared for me in the desert that restored and inspirited me.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

It was not four and twenty hours ago since they had met there to the same repast, but in circumstances how different!

(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)

One Eye watching, felt a sudden moistness in his mouth and a drooling of saliva, involuntary, excited by the living meat that was spreading itself like a repast before him.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

The boiled tea was very bitter, the omelet scorched, and the biscuits speckled with saleratus, but Mrs. March received her repast with thanks and laughed heartily over it after Jo was gone.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

I saw him look at the loaf at supper (which happened to be a small one), as if nothing else stood between us and famine; and when my aunt insisted on his making his customary repast, I detected him in the act of pocketing fragments of his bread and cheese; I have no doubt for the purpose of reviving us with those savings, when we should have reached an advanced stage of attenuation.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

The cold repast was over, and the party were to go out once more to see what had not yet been seen, the old Abbey fish-ponds; perhaps get as far as the clover, which was to be begun cutting on the morrow, or, at any rate, have the pleasure of being hot, and growing cool again.

(Emma, by Jane Austen)

On this festival, the servants drive a herd of Yahoos into the field, laden with hay, and oats, and milk, for a repast to the Houyhnhnms; after which, these brutes are immediately driven back again, for fear of being noisome to the assembly.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)

I generally contrived to reserve a moiety of this bounteous repast for myself; but the remainder I was invariably obliged to part with.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

I said aside, to Traddles, that I wondered whether it occurred to anybody, that there was a striking contrast between these plentiful repasts of choice quality, and the dinners, not to say of paupers, but of soldiers, sailors, labourers, the great bulk of the honest, working community; of whom not one man in five hundred ever dined half so well.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)