vegetarian
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /vɛ.d͡ʒɪˈtɛə.ɹi.ən/
ipa: /ˌvɛ.d͡ʒɪˈtɛə.ɹɪ.ən/
ipa: /vɛ.d͡ʒɪˈtɛ.ɹi.ən/
rhymes: -ɛəɹiən
Forms: form: vegetarians
form: Vegetarian
Etymology: From vegetable + -arian; popularized following 1847 foundation of British Vegetarian Society.
Senses: examples: text: "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."
ref: 1839, Fanny Kemble, Journal of a Residence on a Georgian Plantation in 1838-1839, New York: Harper and Brothers, published 1863, pp. 197-198:
text: 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.
ref: 1897, Robert Hunter, Charles Morris, Universal Dictionary of the English Language, volume 4, page 5045:
text: 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.
ref: 1897, Robert Hunter, Charles Morris, Universal Dictionary of the English Language, volume 4, page 5045:
text: 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.
ref: 1925-29, Mahadev Desai (translator), M.K. Gandhi, The Story of My Experiments with Truth, Part I, chapter xv
text: Heh heh. You hit like a vegetarian!
ref: 2013, Miles Chapman, Arnell Jesko, Escape Plan, spoken by Rottmayer (Arnold Schwarzenegger):
glosses: A person who does not eat animal flesh, or, in some cases, use any animal products.
synonyms: word: herbivore
alt: standard term
glosses: An animal that eats only plants; a herbivore.
Hyponyms: sense: person who does not eat animals
word: vegan
sense: person who does not eat animals
word: lactovegetarian
sense: person who does not eat animals
word: lactarian
sense: person who does not eat animals
word: ovovegetarian
sense: person who does not eat animals
word: eggetarian
sense: person who does not eat animals
word: lacto-ovo-vegetarian
sense: person who does not eat animals
word: lactoovovegetarian
sense: person who does not eat animals
word: ovo-lacto-vegetarian
sense: person who does not eat animals
word: ovolactovegetarian
Coordinate terms: sense: animal that also eats meat
word: omnivore
sense: animal that only eats meat
word: carnivore
sense: person that only eats meat
word: meatarian
sense: person that only eats meat
word: meatatarian
Derived terms: demi-vegetarian
eggetarian
fishetarian
I'm a vegetarian
kangatarian
lactarian
lacto-ovo-vegetarian
lactovegetarian
meatatarian
nonvegetarian
ovolactovegetarian
ovovegetarian
pescetarian
pescovegetarian
semivegetarian
strict vegetarian
vegan
vegaquarian
veggie