mess vs meal

mess and meal both are nouns.

mess is a verb but meal is not a verb.

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

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

mess: a meal eaten in a mess hall by service personnel
meal: the food served and eaten at one time

Other hypernyms of mess include repast.

mess (noun)	meal (noun)
a (large) military dining room where service personnel eat or relax	the food served and eaten at one time
a meal eaten in a mess hall by service personnel	coarsely ground foodstuff; especially seeds of various cereal grasses or pulse
soft semiliquid food	any of the occasions for eating food that occur by custom or habit at more or less fixed times
(often followed by `of') a large number or amount or extent
a state of confusion and disorderliness
informal terms for a difficult situation

mess (verb)	meal (verb)
make a mess of or create disorder in
eat in a mess hall

Difference between mess and meal

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