Repast

Definition: Repast

Repast

Noun

1. The food served and eaten at one time.

Date "repast" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1258. (references)

Synonym: Repast

Synonym: meal (n). (additional references)

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Food	Meal, repast, feed, spread; mess; dish, plate, course; regale; regalement, refreshment, entertainment; refection, collation, picnic, feast, banquet, junket; breakfast; lunch, luncheon; dejeuner, bever, tiffin, dinner, supper, snack, junk food, fast food, whet, bait, dessert; potluck, table d'hote, dejeuner a la fourchette; hearty meal, square meal, substantial meal, full meal; blowout; light refreshment; bara, chotahazri; bara khana.
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

Crosswords: Repast

English words defined with "repast": Bever ♦ Nooning ♦ refection, Repaster. (references)

Specialty definitions using "repast": Capital ♦ Goose at Michaelmas. (references)

Etymologies containing "repast": Antepast ♦ Prandial. (references)

Domain	Title
Books	Past & repast : the history and hospitality of the Missouri Governor's Mansion (reference) Past and Repast (reference) Pecans : past and repast (reference) (more book examples)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Thumbnail	Description & Credit
	A valuable addition to the repast.Credit: Library of Congress.
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Author	Quotation
(Decimus Junius Juvenalis) Juvenal	Like warmed-up cabbage served at each repast, The repetition kills the wretch at last.
Francis Quarles	Anger may repast with thee for an hour, but not repose for a night; the continuance of anger is hatred, the continuance of hatred turns malice.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Title	Author	Quote
Les Miserables	Hugo, Victor	God was serving up the universal repast.
Walden	Thoreau, Henry David	We are cheered when we observe the vulture feeding on the carrion which disgusts and disheartens us, and deriving health and strength from the repast.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Subject	Topic	Quote
Lexicography	Devil's Dictionary	CAPITAL, n. The seat of misgovernment. That which provides the fire, the pot, the dinner, the table and the knife and fork for the anarchist; the part of the repast that himself supplies is the disgrace before meat. Capital Punishment, a penalty regarding the justice and expediency of which many worthy persons -- including all the assassins -- entertain grave misgivings.
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

"Repast" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 94.44% of the time. "Repast" is used about 18 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Noun (singular)	94.44%	17	85,106
Lexical Verb (base form)	5.56%	1	339,140
Total	100.00%	18	N/A

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.

Language		Translations for "repast"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		vakt (meal, mealtime, time), ushqim (aliment, alimentation, alimony, allowance, chow, chuck, comestible, cuisine, diet, dish, eatables, eating, fare, feed, feeding, food, foodstuff, grub, input, meat, nourishment, nurture, nutriment, nutrition, pabulum, pot luck, provender, supply, sustenance, table, tack, Tommy), të ngrëna (feeding, food, nurture). (various references)

Arabic		‏مأدبة (banquet, feast, function, junket, spread, tuck), ‏وقعة, ‏وجبة (meal, portion). (various references)

Bulgarian		ядене (eating, feed, meal, meat, provender, scoff), трапеза (board, table). (various references)

Chinese		餐飲 . (various references)

Czech		pokrm (dish, Farina, flummery, fricassee, pinole, quenelle, Sillabub, victual), jídlo (chop suey, dish, feed, food, meal, nurture, sustenance, tack, tuck, victual, victuals). (various references)

Farsi		وقت غذاخوری , غذاخوردن , ضیافت (Banquet, Symposium), خوراک (Cuisine, Dish, Fare, Feed, Grub, Meat, Nourishment, Nutrition, Tack, Tucker, Viand). (various references)

French		repas, banquet. (various references)

German		Mahl (dinner, meal), Mahlzeit (banquet, dinner, feed, meal). (various references)

Greek		γεύμα (meal), φαγητό (chow, course, fare, food, meal, mess). (various references)

Hebrew		מאכל (caustic, corroding, corrosive, dish, eating, food), סעו�"�" (banquet, feast, meal, spread). (various references)

Hungarian		étkezés (eating, gorge, meal). (various references)

Italian		pranzo (dinner, lunch, luncheon). (various references)

Manx		scobbey (eating hastily, snack), lhongey (collation, feed, grub, oatmeal, sustenance). (various references)

Pig Latin		epastray

Portuguese		repasto (meal). (various references)

Romanian		ospãţ (banquet, feast, feasting, regale, treat), masã (avoirdupois, block, board, body, bulk, clump, congeries, cooking, crop, crowd, cuisine, dinner, dusty treat, feast, gross, lump, mass, meal, meat, multitude, people, shoal, table, throng, tuck in), mâncare (bait, bite, board, bread, cheer, chow, dish, eatable, eating, edibles, esculent, food, grub, meal, meat, mess, plate, table, tuck in, victuals), banchet (banquet, dinner party, entertainment, feast, house dinner, regale, spread, symposium). (various references)

Russian		еда (chow, eats, fare, fast food, food, grub, knife and fork, meal, meat, potluck, prog). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		obrok (meal, mess, ration). (various references)

Spanish		comida (chow, cuisine, dining, dinner, eating, fare, feed, feeding, food, Frankfurter, grub, lunch, luncheon, meal, midday meal, nosh, provender, scoff, scoffing). (various references)

Swedish		måltid (meal). (various references)

Thai		อาหาร (คำโบรา�"), รับประทานอาหาร. (various references)

Turkish		yemek zamanı (dinner time, mealtime), yemek (chow, crop, dine off, dine on, dinner, dish, eat, feed, food, grub, ingest, meal, Peck, scoff, scran), öğün (meal). (various references)

Ukranian		їда (eating, meal, nurture), трапеза (table), бенкет (banquet, carousal, epulation, feast, regale). (various references)

Vietnamese		bữa ăn (scoff). (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Language	Period	Translations
Sumerian	3100 BCE-2500 BCE	bur. (various references)
Latin	500 BCE-Modern	re-. (various references)
Late Latin	300-700	repastus. (various references)
Old French	900-1400	repast. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Derivations
	Words beginning with "repast": repasted, repasting, repasts. (additional references)
	Words ending with "repast": forepast. (additional references)
	Words containing "repast": prepaste, prepasted, prepastes, prepasting. (additional references)
Misspellings
	"Repast" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: kreposti, rapaz, Rebaza, redast, renast, repart, reparto, repaste, repastr, repat, repect, rupas. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Direct Anagrams: paster, paters, prates, tapers, trapes.
	Words within the letters "a-e-p-r-s-t"
	-1 letter: apers, apres, apter, asper, aster, pares, parse, parts, paste, pater, pates, pears, peart, peats, prase, prate, prats, presa, prest, rapes, rates, reaps, septa, spare, spate, spear, sprat, stare, strap, strep, taper, tapes, tares, tarps, tears, tepas, traps.
	-2 letters: aper, apes, apse, ares, arse, arts, ates, ears, east, eats, eras, erst, etas, pare.
	Words containing the letters "a-e-p-r-s-t"
	+1 letter: arpents, carpets, departs, entraps, esparto, palters, parents, pargets, parties, pastern, pasters, pastier, pasture, patters, patzers, persalt, petards, piaster, piastre, pirates, plaster, platers, praters, preacts, precast, proteas, psalter, repasts, repeats, restamp, retapes, seaport, sparest, spatter, spectra, stamper, stapler, tampers, tappers, tapster, tephras, threaps, traipse, trepans, uprates, upstare, uptears.
	+2 letters: adapters, adopters, apterous, asperate, asperity, aspirate, captures, chapters, crispate, espartos, forepast, grapiest, operants, operates, overpast, painters, palestra, panthers, pantries, parapets, parasite, paretics, parietes, parities, parquets, partakes, partiers, partlets, partners, partyers, pasterns, pastored, pastries, pastured, pasturer, pastures, patchers, patterns, peartest, pederast, periapts, persalts, pertains, petrales, petrosal, peytrals, phorates, piasters, piastres, picrates, pilaster, pinaster, plaister, plaiters, planters, plasters, plastery, platters, pleaters, polestar, portages, postrace, practise, praetors, prattles, precasts, predates, preheats, prelates, prepaste, prestamp, pretapes, pretaste, primates, pristane, privates, probates, pronates, prorates, prostate, protases, proteans, protease, psalters, psaltery, rapidest, raptness, raptures, raspiest, readapts, readopts, repaints, repasted, replants, replates, restamps, sceptral, seaports, separate, septaria, sharpest, sparsest, spatters, spectral, splatter, sprattle, stampers, staplers, strapped, strapper, supertax, taperers, tapestry, tapsters, temperas, templars, tempuras, traipsed, traipses, trampers, tramples, transept, trapesed, trapeses, trapezes, trapnest, trappers, trappose, trepangs, trespass, triphase, typebars, updaters, upstared, upstares, upstater, upstream, wiretaps.
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