vegetarian

CEFRA1

/vɛ.d͡ʒɪˈtɛə.ɹi.ən/

noun · adjective

Türkçe translations

Translating…

In plain English

  1. 01

    noun

    A person who does not eat meat or fish.

  2. 02

    noun

    Extra detail

    An animal that eats only plants; a herbivore.

Examples

  • I'm a vegetarian who eats a ton of meat.

  • I'm a vegetarian, so I'd rather not have meat, if that's okay.

At a glance

Sits at A1 on the CEFR scale

Senses
5
Parts of speech
2
Citations
5
Synonyms
2

Also pronounced

  • /ˌvɛ.d͡ʒɪˈtɛə.ɹɪ.ən/

Deep Dive

noun

Extra meanings

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

  2. A person who does not eat animal flesh, or, in some cases, use any animal products.

adjective

Extra meaning

  1. Without meat.

More examples

In context

  • I am a lapsed vegetarian.

  • I have a vegetarian brother

  • 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...

Synonyms

Antonyms

Quick test

Two questions on this entry. Nothing is scored.

Question 1 · Quick check

My sister refuses to eat any meat, so she is a strict blank.

Practise this properly in the app, where the word comes back before you forget it.

Nearby

Origin

noun

From vegetable + -arian; popularized following the foundation of the British Vegetarian Society in 1847.