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English

Etymology

From Middle English mete, from Old English mete (“meat, food”), from Proto-West Germanic *mati, from Proto-Germanic *matiz (“food”), from Proto-Indo-European *meh?d- (“to drip, ooze; grease, fat”). Cognate with West Frisian mete, Old Saxon meti, Old High German maz (“food”), Icelandic matr, Gothic ???????????????? (mats).

A -ja- derivation from the same base is found in Middle Dutch and Middle Low German met (“lean pork”), from which latter German Mett (“minced meat”). Compare also Old Irish mess (“animal feed”) and Welsh mes (“acorns”), English mast (“fodder for swine and other animals”), which are probably from the same root.

Pronunciation

• enPR: m?t, IPA^(key): /mi?t/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /mit/
• Rhymes: -i?t
• Homophones: meet, mete

Noun

meat (countable and uncountable, plural meats)

1. (uncountable) The flesh (muscle tissue) of an animal used as food. [from 14th c.]
2. (countable) A type of meat, by anatomic position and provenance. [from 16th c.]

3. (now archaic, dialectal) Food, for animals or humans, especially solid food. See also meat and drink. [from 8th c.]
   • 1526, William Tyndale, trans. Bible, Matthew, XXV:

     I was anhongred, and ye gave me meate. I thursted, and ye gave me drinke.

   • 1623, William Shakespeare, Timon of Athens:

     Your greatest want is, you want much of meat: / Why should you want? Behold, the Earth hath Rootes […].

   • 1879, Silas Hocking, Her Benny

     As full of fun and frolic as an egg is full of meat.

   • 1936, Djuna Barnes, Nightwood, Faber & Faber, 2007, p.13:

     The way she said ‘dinner’ and the way she said ‘champagne’ gave meat and liquid their exact difference […].

4. (now rare) A type of food, a dish. [from 9th c.]
5. (archaic) A meal. [from 9th c.]
   • 1526, William Tyndale, trans. Bible, Matthew, ch. 8:

     And hit cam to passe, thatt Jesus satt at meate in his housse.

6. (obsolete) Meal; flour.
7. (uncountable) Any relatively thick, solid part of a fruit, nut etc. [from 15th c.]
   • 1954, Cothburn O'Neal, The Dark Lady (page 12)

     She took her spoon and stirred the melted butter into the yellow meat of the yam.

8. (slang) A penis. [from 16th c.]
   • 1993, Nancy Friday, Women on top: how real life has changed women's sexual fantasies, page 538

     He sits me on the floor (the shower is still beating down on us). He lays me down and slides his huge meat into me.

   • 2006 John Patrick, Play Hard, Score Big, page 54

     Just the tight, hot caress of his bowels surrounding my meat gave me pleasures I had only dreamed of before that day.

   • 2011, Wade Wright, Two Straight Guys, page 41

     Both men were completely, and very actively into this face fucking! Suddenly Bill pulled off of Jim's meat and said,

9. (colloquial) The best or most substantial part of something. [from 16th c.]
   • 1577, Gerald Eades Bentley, The Arte of Angling

     […] it is time to begin "A Dialogue between Viator and Piscator," which is the meat of the matter.

10. (sports) The sweet spot of a bat or club (in cricket, golf, baseball etc.). [from 20th c.]

11. (slang) A meathead.

12. (Australian Aboriginal) A totem, or (by metonymy) a clan or clansman which uses it.
    • 1949, Oceania, Vol.XX

      When a stranger comes to an aboriginal camp or settlement in north-western NSW, he is asked by one of the older aborigines: "What meat (clan) are you?"

    • 1973, M. Fennel & A. Grey, Nucoorilma

      Granny Sullivan was ‘dead against’ the match at first because they did not know "what my meat was and because I was a bit on the fair side."

    • 1993, J. Janson, Gunjies

      That’s a beautiful goanna. […]. He’s my meat, can’t eat him.

Usage notes

• The meaning "flesh of an animal used as food" is often understood to exclude fish and other seafood. For example, the rules for abstaining from meat in the Roman Catholic Church do not extend to fish; likewise, some people who consider themselves vegetarians also eat fish (though the more precise term for such a person is pescetarian).
• Traditionally, this meaning sometimes also excluded poultry.

Synonyms

• (animal flesh used as food): flesh; See also Thesaurus:meat
• (penis): see Thesaurus:penis
• (best or most substantial part of something): crux, gist; See also Thesaurus:gist

Antonyms

• drink

Derived terms

Descendants

• Sranan Tongo: meti

Translations

Anagrams

• AEMT, ATEM, Atem, META, Meta, Tame, Team, Tema, mate, maté, meta, meta-, tame, team

Latin

Verb

meat

1. third-person singular present active indicative of me?

Romanian

Etymology

From French méat, from Latin meatus.

Noun

meat n (plural meaturi)

1. meatus

Declension

English

Pronunciation

• (General American) enPR: märt, IPA^(key): /m??t/
• Rhymes: -??(r)t

Etymology 1

From Middle Dutch mart, markt (“market”) (Modern Dutch markt), from Old Dutch *markat, from Late Latin marc?tus, an alternative form of Classical Latin merc?tus. See market.

Noun

mart (plural marts)

1. A market.
   • 1786 [1834], William Cowper, The Task Book 1 in Poems Fourth Edition, 271:

     In London. Where has commerce such a mart,
     So rich, so thronged, so drained, and so supplied,
     As London—opulent, enlarged, and still
     Increasing, London?
2. (obsolete) A bargain.
   • 1616, William Shakespeare, The Taming of the Shrew, ii.2

     Now I play a merchant's part, and venture madly on a desperate mart.

Verb

mart (third-person singular simple present marts, present participle marting, simple past and past participle marted)

1. (obsolete) To buy or sell in, or as in a mart.
2. (obsolete) To traffic.

Etymology 2

From Latin M?rs. See Mart.

Noun

mart (plural marts)

1. (obsolete) Battle; contest.
2. (historical) Alternative form of marque (letters of mart).

Anagrams

• RATM, matr-, tarm, tram

Azerbaijani

Noun

mart (definite accusative mart?, plural martlar)

1. March

Declension

See also

• (Gregorian calendar months) ay; yanvar, fevral, mart, aprel, may, iyun, iyul, avqust, sentyabr, oktyabr, noyabr, dekabr ^{(Category: az:Months)}

Catalan

Etymology

From a Germanic language.

Pronunciation

• (Balearic, Valencian) IPA^(key): /?ma?t/
• (Central) IPA^(key): /?mart/

Noun

mart m (plural marts)

1. marten

Further reading

• “mart” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “mart” in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana.
• “mart” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “mart” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

Crimean Tatar

Noun

mart

1. March

Declension

See also

• (Gregorian calendar months) ay; yanvar, fevral, mart, aprel, may?s, iyün, iyül, avgust, sentâbr, oktâbr, noyabr, dekabr ^{(Category: crh:Months)}

References

• Mirjejev, V. A.; Usejinov, S. M. (2002) Ukrajins?ko-kryms?kotatars?kyj slovnyk [Ukrainian – Crimean Tatar Dictionary]?^[2], Simferopol: Dolya, ?ISBN

Hungarian

Etymology

mar +? -t

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?m?rt]
• Hyphenation: mart

Verb

mart

1. third-person singular indicative past indefinite of mar

Participle

mart

1. past participle of mar

Declension

Irish

Etymology

From Old Irish mart (“ox or cow slaughtered for meat, ox- (cow-) carcass”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /m?a??t?/

Noun

mart m (genitive singular mairt, nominative plural mairt)

1. heifer or bullock carcass
2. heifer or bullock fattened for slaughter
3. (figuratively) beefy person

Declension

Derived terms

• mairteoil f (“beef”)
• martán m (“small ox”)

Mutation

References

• "mart" in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, An Gúm, 1977, by Niall Ó Dónaill.
• Gregory Toner, Maire Ní Mhaonaigh, Sharon Arbuthnot, Dagmar Wodtko, Maire-Luise Theuerkauf, editors (2019) , “2 mart”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language

Maltese

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /mart/
• Homophone: mard

Noun

mart

1. construct form of mara

Papiamentu

Etymology

From Dutch maart.

Noun

mart

1. March

See also

Months of the year: yanüari (“January”), febrüari (“February”), mart (“March”), aprel (“April”), mei (“May”), yüni (“June”), yüli (“July”), ougùstùs (“August”), sèptèmber (“September”), oktober (“October”), novèmber (“November”), desèmber (“December”).

Scottish Gaelic

Etymology

From Old Irish mart (“ox, cow”).

Noun

mart m (genitive singular mairt, plural mairt)

1. cow

Synonyms

• bò

Derived terms

• mairtfheòil (“beef”)

Mutation

References

• “mart” in Edward Dwelly, Faclair Gàidhlig gu Beurla le Dealbhan/The Illustrated [Scottish] Gaelic–English Dictionary, 10th edition, Edinburgh: Birlinn Limited, 1911, ?ISBN.
• Gregory Toner, Maire Ní Mhaonaigh, Sharon Arbuthnot, Dagmar Wodtko, Maire-Luise Theuerkauf, editors (2019) , “2 mart”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language

Serbo-Croatian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /mârt/

Noun

m?rt m (Cyrillic spelling ?????)

1. (Bosnia, Serbia) March

Declension

Synonyms

• òžujak (Croatian)

Derived terms

• m?rtovsk?

See also

• (Gregorian calendar months) m(j)eseci gregorijanskog kalendara; januar/sije?anj, februar/velja?a, mart/ožujak, april/travanj, maj/svibanj, jun/juni/lipanj, jul/juli/srpanj, avgust/august/kolovoz, septembar/rujan, oktobar/listopad, novembar/studeni, decembar/prosinac ^{(Category: sh:Gregorian calendar months)}

Tatar

Noun

mart (Cyrillic spelling ????)

1. March

Declension

Related terms

• (month): Previous: febräl. Next: äpril

Turkish

Etymology

From Ottoman Turkish ?????, from Latin martius.

Pronunciation

Noun

mart (definite accusative mart?, plural martlar)

1. March

Declension

See also

• (Gregorian calendar months) ay; ocak, ?ubat, mart, nisan, may?s, haziran, temmuz, a?ustos, eylül, ekim, kas?m, aral?k ^{(Category: tr:Months)}

Turkmen

Etymology

Borrowed from Russian ???? (mart).

Noun

mart (definite accusative marty, plural martlar)

1. March

See also

• (Gregorian calendar months) aý; ýanwar, fewral, mart, aprel, maý, iýun, iýul, awgust, sentýabr, oktýabr, noýabr, dekabr ^{(Category: tk:Months)}

Uzbek

Etymology

From Russian ???? (mart), from Latin m?rtius.

Noun

mart (plural martlar)

1. March

Declension

Related terms

• (Gregorian calendar months) oy; yanvar, fevral, mart, aprel, may, iyun, iyul, avgust, sentabr, oktabr, noyabr, dekabr ^{(Category: uz:Months)}