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vegetarian
English
Alternative forms
- Vegetarian (obsolete)
Etymology
vegetable +? -arian; popularized following 1847 foundation of British Vegetarian Society.
Pronunciation
- (General American) IPA(key): /v?d????t??i.?n/
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /v?d????t???i.?n/, /?v?d????t?????n/
- Rhymes: -??ri?n
Noun
vegetarian (plural vegetarians)
- A person who does not eat animal flesh, or, in some cases, use any animal products. [from 1839]
- 1839 Fanny Kemble, Journal of a Residence on a Georgian Plantation in 1838–1839, Harper and Brothers, New York, 1863, pp. 197–198:
- "The sight and smell of raw meat are especially odious to me, and I have often thought that if I had had to be my own cook, I should inevitably become a vegetarian, probably, indeed, return entirely to my green and salad days."
- 1897, Robert Hunter and Charles Morris, Universal Dictionary of the English Language, volume 4, page 5045:
- Vegetarian Society […] A society […] formed at Manchester in 1847, to promote the use of cereals, pulse, and fruit, as articles of diet; and to induce habits of abstinence from fish, flesh, and fowl, as food.
- 1897, Robert Hunter and Charles Morris, Universal Dictionary of the English Language, volume 4, page 5045:
- vegetarian […] One who abstains from animal food, living exclusively on vegetables, milk, eggs, and the like. The more strict vegetarians eat vegetables and farinaceous food only, abstaining from eggs, butter, milk, and in some cases, honey.
- 1925-29, Mahadev Desai (translator), M.K. Gandhi, The Story of My Experiments with Truth, Part I, chapter xv[1]:
- I went in for all books available on vegetarianism and read them. One of these, Howard Williams' The Ethics of Diet, was a 'biographical history of the literature of humane dietetics from the earliest period to the present day'. It tried to make out, that all philosophers and prophets from Pythagoras and Jesus down to those of the present age were vegetarians.
- 1839 Fanny Kemble, Journal of a Residence on a Georgian Plantation in 1838–1839, Harper and Brothers, New York, 1863, pp. 197–198:
- An animal that eats only plants; a herbivore.
- Synonym: herbivore (standard term)
Hyponyms
- (person who does not eat animals): vegan; lactovegetarian, lactarian; ovovegetarian, eggetarian; lacto-ovo-vegetarian, lactoovovegetarian, ovo-lacto-vegetarian, ovolactovegetarian
Coordinate terms
- (animal that also eats meat): omnivore
- (animal that only eats meat): carnivore
- (person that only eats meat): meatarian, meatatarian
Translations
Adjective
vegetarian (comparative more vegetarian, superlative most vegetarian)
- Of or relating to the type of diet eaten by vegetarians (in all senses). [from 1849]
- Synonym: Pythagorean
- Without meat.
- Of a product normally made with meat, having non-meat substitutes in place of meat.
- 2008, Wil Forbis, Acid Logic: A Decade of Humorous Writing on Pop Culture, Trash Cinema, and Rebel Music, p. 208:
- Is there such a thing as a good tasting vegetarian hot dog? Cuz every one I've tried tasted like smelted tire.
- 2008, Wil Forbis, Acid Logic: A Decade of Humorous Writing on Pop Culture, Trash Cinema, and Rebel Music, p. 208:
- (of a person) That does not eat meat.
Translations
Derived terms
See also
- fruitarian
- vagitarian
- nutarian
- pescetarian
- vegan
Further reading
- vegetarianism on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Anagrams
- renavigate
Romanian
Etymology
From French végétarien
Adjective
vegetarian m or n (feminine singular vegetarian?, masculine plural vegetarieni, feminine and neuter plural vegetariene)
- vegetarian
Declension
Swedish
Etymology
Borrowed from English vegetarian.
Noun
vegetarian c
- A vegetarian.
Declension
Related terms
- vegetarianism
Anagrams
- negativare
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flexitarian
English
Etymology
Blend of flexible +? vegetarian.
Noun
flexitarian (plural flexitarians)
- One who is usually or primarily vegetarian, but not strictly so.
Usage notes
- This term is sometimes used pejoratively by strict vegetarians.
Coordinate terms
- vegetarian
- vegan
- omnivore (food culture)
- carnivore (food culture)
Translations
Adjective
flexitarian (comparative more flexitarian, superlative most flexitarian)
- (of a person) Being a flexitarian.
- (of food, a diet, etc.) Being what a flexitarian might eat.
References
- Karen Iacobbo and Michael Iacobbo, Vegetarians and Vegans in America Today, Greenwood Publishing Group (2006), ?ISBN, pages 164–5.
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