Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- adj. Of or relating to a meal.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Relating or pertaining to a dinner or other meal: as, prandial preparations.
Wiktionary
GNU Webster's 1913
- adj. Of or pertaining to a repast, especially to dinner.
WordNet 3.0
- adj. of or relating to a meal
Etymologies
- From Latin prandium ("late breakfast"). (Wiktionary)
- From Latin prandium, late breakfast; see ed- in Indo-European roots. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“Into his post-prandial idyll stalks Steve Coogan; taller, sharper, slightly harried, he sits down heavily and scowls.”
The Guardian: Rob Brydon and Steve Coogan: 'We're not the big buddies people think we are'
“Mr. Bornemann, who hardly ever misses a meeting, has not prolonged ago had teenager knee as good as during a behind of surgery; he promises to lapse for a subsequent prandial as good as postprandial deliberations.”
“But let's be honest, when you spend 16 hours a day in a delirious state of prandial deprivation, your cravings rival those of a pregnant woman.”
“What they were not prepared for was the post-prandial aggression of oil traders who kicked and punched them back on to the pavement.”
“Initially seen in a post-prandial pose in a Swedish cabin on a wintry lake with a naked woman, it ends with Clooney having killed three people.”
The Huffington Post: Marshall Fine: Movie Review: The American
“The post-prandial reward is a cup of coffee with fresh cream.”
The Huffington Post: April Streeter: Necessity is the Mother of...Weird Meals
“What else to do after that but saunter up to The Beauchamp for a few post prandial settlers.”
“After the meal, as everyone's settling back in their chairs and recovering for the post-prandial board games, you are spoiled for choice.”
“As fate would have it, when I came back an hour later with a camera loaded with newly purchased film, I was distraught to see the carcass of my wreath blowing in the breeze, picked clean by the birds who lay on their sides in the bushes in a post-prandial stupor, laughing at me and the look of horror on my face.”
One For The Table: A Homemade Christmas? I'd Think Twice About That
“A second half during which the air is filled with the sound of gentle post-prandial snoring and the fetid aroma of champagne halitosis and poached salmon burps.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘prandial’.
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phrontistery - p
from phrontistery.info
pustule, purulence, pushful, purser, purpureal, putative, purpure, purpresture, purloin, purline, purlieu, purlicue and 1766 more...
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From reading
Collected from reading
venerate, reprobate, reticent, adoration, ethereal, ephemeral, equivocal, contumacious, heinous, solicitous, agnostic, aberration and 335 more...
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wallace
Remington, Windsor, prorector, wen, aver, mottle, seltzer, tepee, lapidary, effete, sotto, presbyopia and 355 more...
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Logolepsy
"Luciferous Logolepsy is a collection of over 9,000 obscure English words. Though the definition of an 'English' word might seem to be straightforward, it is not. There exist so many adopted, deriv...
Anschauung, Areopagus, Argus, Briarean, Dei gratia, Dei judicium, Deo volente, Duecento, Foehn, Geflugelte Worte, Gegenschein, Hakenkreuz and 9230 more...
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New Words
No definite conception of these words.
reggaeton, fugacious, astray, artillery, quietism, heteronomy, plebeian, remit, hypostasize, discountenance, rictus, wail and 60 more...
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A Time of Gifts
lambent, gonfalon, ait, eyrie, haberdashery, belfry, capstan, spinney, barbican, hobnail, wharf, waterlogged and 64 more...
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A whooshing of turpentine up my nostrils
Descriptors to use at your next wine-tasting
sawdusty, barnyardy, igneous, graphitic, impolitic, noisome, eldritch, lovecraftian, beanfeastish, spidery, impious, daft and 63 more...
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miscellany
extrapolate, effluvium, maelstrom, ecclesiastic, potentiate, prestidigitation, verisimilitude, innocuous, octogenarian, interlocutor, proselytize, ubiquitous and 138 more...
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delightful descriptors
petrichor, omphaloskepsis, ouroboros, oneiric, flaneur, saunter, dishabituation, fractalization, eudemony, phosphorescence, holographic, umwelt and 136 more...
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new words!
errata, corrigenda, lacuna, inculcate, chiaroscuro, temerity, folderol, juggernaut, diadem, alacrity, exegesis, portmanteau and 97 more...
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Infinite Jest
Words to remember from DFW's "Infinite Jest"
wen, matriculation, circumflex, lapidary, effete, sotto, hypertrophy, presbyopic, ideogram, pinion, parquet, nelson and 152 more...
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wordhoard
dilatory, ataraxia, hermit, cabana, hut, dome, vestigial, porcine, crapulous, usufruct, curmudgeon, bombastic and 229 more...
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madamepsychosis's Words
mollify, salubrious, prandial, coup de grace, ineluctable, metempsychosis, pedant, conatus, oeuvre, laconic, solipsism, vapid and 265 more...
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times
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the omnibus
preponderance, idioglossia, acumen, heteronym, flux, anacoluthon, metonymy, impetus, constellation, exegesis, revelatory, cloistered and 877 more...
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drseatbelt's Words
bilious, centenarian, droll, palliative, cortege, stultify, polysemy, suffuse, lambent, timorous, aegis, modicum and 236 more...
Tweets
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tricon A prandial coma. Mar 18, 2010
super-labmaven A post-prandial nap is always an excellent idea.
Prandial: of or relating to a meal Mar 21, 2009