victuals vs meal

victuals and meal both are nouns.

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

As nouns, meal is a hyponym of victuals; that is, meal is a word with a more specific, narrower meaning than victuals:

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