meal vs victuals

meal and victuals both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
meal	Yes	No	No	No
victuals	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, victuals is a hypernym of meal; that is, victuals is a word with a broader meaning than meal:

Other hypernyms of meal include aliment, alimentation, nourishment, nutriment, nutrition, sustenance.

meal (noun)	victuals (noun)
the food served and eaten at one time	any substance that can be used as food
coarsely ground foodstuff; especially seeds of various cereal grasses or pulse	a source of materials to nourish the body
any of the occasions for eating food that occur by custom or habit at more or less fixed times	a stock or supply of foods