repast
pronunciation
How to pronounce repast in British English:
UK [rɪˈpɑ:st]
How to pronounce repast in American English:
US [rɪˈpæst]
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- Noun:
- the food served and eaten at one time
Word Origin
- repast
- repast: [14] The closest English relative of repast is not past but pasture. It was borrowed from Old French repast, a derivative of repaistre ‘feed’. This in turn went back to late Latin repascere ‘feed again’, a compound verb formed from the prefix re- ‘again’ and pascere ‘feed’ (whose past participial stem formed the basis of English pasture).=> pasture
- repast (n.)
- late 14c., from Old French repast (Modern Frech repas) "a meal, food," from Late Latin repastus "meal" (also source of Spanish repasto, noun use of past participle of repascere "to feed again," from Latin re- "repeatedly" (see re-) + pascere "to graze" (see pastor). The verb (intransitive) is from late 15c.
Synonym
Example
- 1. Wholesale and retail trade , repast industry .
- 2. Will you have another cup of repast ?
- 3. Why not reside for a cup of repast ?
- 4. I found a cold repast spread out , evidently the remnants of last night 's dinner .
- 5. Because exposed out on the sand , they 're easy pickings for birds interested in a rodent repast .