square
10
2.3
- adjective
- /skwɛr/
- The children looked forward to the three square meals provided at camp every day.
Examples
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I find it hard to get 8 hours of sleep and eat 3 square meals a day.
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Three square meals a day and good pay in your pocket.
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Eight square meals a day, plus snacks.
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Patients have three scheduled square meals every day and a snack in the evening.
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In Job Corps, you live at a Job Corps center, get free medical and dental care, clean clothes, your own bed to sleep in, three square meals a day.
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The way some of them are gobbling it down, you wouldn't think they'd had a square meal for a week.
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At the shelter, everyone receives three square meals daily to ensure they are well-fed.
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The restaurant is known for serving hearty and square meals, satisfying even the hungriest diners.
Synonyms
719
3.0
Strong and dependable, trusted for quality
308
5.0
Large in amount, size, or importance
21
2.7
Filling food like soup or stew that keeps you full
Antonyms
Idioms
To stand or sit with shoulders pulled back to show confidence before something difficult
Compounds
- US
144
1.4
A measure of area equal to a square one foot on each side used for rooms and land
108
2.7
A busy part of Manhattan with bright lights, theaters, and New Year's Eve celebrations
- Texting
9
4.0
An online place where people meet to discuss public issues and share ideas
- Specialized
8
3.4
A unit that measures pressure equal to one pound of force on one square inch
5
3.7
A large open place in central London with a monument to Nelson and big lion statues
- Specialized
1
3.9
A knot used to join two ends of rope or cord by tying two opposite small knots
1
6.7
A tool with a long straight edge and a T-shaped top used to draw straight or parallel lines
- Specialized
1
7.2
A square grid of numbers whose rows, columns, and main diagonals add to the same total
- Archaic
1
8.5
A four-sided piece of cloth hung on a bar across a ship's mast to catch the wind
- Specialized
1
9.9
A ship with large square sails hung on horizontal bars across the masts
- Specialized
1
5.3
A solid shape with a square base and four triangular faces that meet at a top point
1
4.4
A large flat L-shaped metal tool carpenters use to measure and mark right angles
1
3.2
Music played to accompany square dancing, often with lively fiddle or banjo rhythms
- Specialized
1
9.1
A square grid filled with different symbols so each symbol appears once in each row and column
- Specialized
1
6.2
A metal tool with a ruler and handle for checking right angles in wood or metal
- Specialized
1
6.8
A number that shows if the data you see differ from what you expect
- Specialized
1
4.2
A small metal piece with four flat sides that fits on a bolt to hold things together
- Specialized
A hand tool with two arms joined at one end to measure or mark angled lines
- Archaic
A person honored for great bravery who leads troops and carries a square banner
- Specialized
A Roman style of writing using upright block capital letters often carved on stone
- Archaic
A medium-sized Arctic seal with whiskers on each side of its nose, also called the bearded seal
- Archaic
A person with very old-fashioned and strict ideas about how people should behave
How Filling
Surface Forms
Etymology
A helpful way to remember the phrase square meal is to think of a solid, full meal that 'fills a box'; that's why a square meal means a substantial, nourishing meal.