different between vegetarian vs vegetable

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)

1. 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.

2. 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)

1. Of or relating to the type of diet eaten by vegetarians (in all senses). [from 1849]

   Synonym: Pythagorean

2. Without meat.
3. 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.

4. (of a person) That does not eat meat.

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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)

1. vegetarian

Declension

Swedish

Etymology

Borrowed from English vegetarian.

Noun

vegetarian c

1. A vegetarian.

Declension

Related terms

• vegetarianism

Anagrams

• negativare

English

Etymology

From Middle English vegetable, from Old French vegetable, from Latin veget?bilis (“able to live and grow”), derived from veget?re (“to enliven”). Displaced Old English wyrt (“herb, vegetable, plant, crop, root”).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?v?d??t?b?l/, /?v?d???t?b?l/
• (US, Canada) IPA^(key): /?v?d???t?b?l/, /?v?d??t?b?l/, /?v?t??t?b?l/

Noun

vegetable (plural vegetables)

1. Any plant.
   • 1837, The Edinburgh New Philosophical Journal (volume 23, page 222)

     That he might ascertain whether any of the cloths of ancient Egypt were made of hemp, M. Dutrochet has examined with the microscope the weavable filaments of this last vegetable.

2. A plant raised for some edible part of it, such as the leaves, roots, fruit or flowers, but excluding any plant considered to be a fruit, grain, herb, or spice in the culinary sense.

   Synonyms: veg, veggie

3. The edible part of such a plant.

   Synonyms: veg, veggie

4. (figuratively, derogatory) A person whose brain (or, infrequently, body) has been damaged so that they cannot interact with the surrounding environment; a person in a persistent vegetative state.

   Synonym: cabbage

Derived terms

Related terms

Translations

Adjective

vegetable (not comparable)

1. Of or relating to plants.
2. Of or relating to vegetables.

Translations

Further reading

• vegetable on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• vegetable (disambiguation) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia