teatime vs meal

teatime and meal both are nouns.

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

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

Other hypernyms of teatime include repast.

teatime (noun)	meal (noun)
a light midafternoon meal of tea and sandwiches or cakes	the food served and eaten at one time
	coarsely ground foodstuff; especially seeds of various cereal grasses or pulse
	any of the occasions for eating food that occur by custom or habit at more or less fixed times