vegetarian
Part of speech: noun
adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From vegetable + -arian; popularized following the foundation of the British Vegetarian Society in 1847.
Base: vegetable
Affixes: -arian
Inflected forms:
form: vegetarians
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: Vegetarian
pos: noun
tags: alternative
obsolete
form: more vegetarian
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most vegetarian
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: A person who does not eat animal flesh, or, in some cases, use any animal products.
pos: noun
examples: "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."
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.
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.
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.
Many vegetarians abhor the thought of killing animals to feed themselves and also the methods by which animals are slaughtered.
Heh heh. You hit like a vegetarian!
gloss: An animal that eats only plants; a herbivore.
pos: noun
gloss: Of or relating to the type of diet eaten by vegetarians (in all senses).
pos: adj
examples: Must we not put to death blackbirds and thrushes because they feed on worms, or (if capital punishment offends our humanitarianism) starve them slowly by permanent captivity and vegetarian diet?
According to interviews by New York Times correspondents across the country, more and more people—especially the young—are giving up “flesh foods” in favor of a vegetarian way of life.
gloss: Without meat.
pos: adj
gloss: Of a product normally made with meat, having non-meat substitutes in place of meat.
pos: adj
examples: Is there such a thing as a good tasting vegetarian hot dog? Cuz every one I've tried tasted like smelted tire.
gloss: That does not eat meat.
pos: adj
examples: I have a vegetarian brother
Related words: fruitarian
nutarian
pescetarian
vagitarian
vegan
Derived words: demi-vegetarian
eggetarian
fishetarian
I'm a vegetarian
kangatarian
lactarian
lacto-ovo-vegetarian
meatatarian
ovolactovegetarian
pescovegetarian
semivegetarian
vegaquarian
lactovegetarian
nonvegetarian
ovovegetarian
pescetarian
strict vegetarian
vegan
veggie
antivegetarian
pescovegetarianism
unvegetarian
vegetarian burger
vegetarian egg
vegetarian hamburger
vegetarianism
vegetarianist
vegetarianistic
vegetarianize
Translations:
lang: Afrikaans
word: herbivoor
lang: Bulgarian
word: тревоя́дно
roman: trevojádno
lang: Czech
word: býložravec
lang: Danish
word: planteæder
lang: Danish
word: herbivor
lang: Dutch
word: herbivoor
lang: Finnish
word: kasvinsyöjä
lang: French
word: herbivore
lang: Galician
word: herbívoro
lang: Georgian
word: ბალახისმჭამელი
roman: balaxismč̣ameli
lang: German
word: Pflanzenfresser
lang: Greek
word: φυτοφάγο
roman: fytofágo
lang: Hindi
word: शाकाहारी
roman: śākāhārī
lang: Hungarian
word: növényevő
lang: Japanese
word: 草食
roman: sōshoku
lang: Macedonian
word: тревопа́сно
roman: trevopásno
lang: Nepali
word: शाकाहारी
roman: śākāhārī
lang: Polish
word: roślinożerca
lang: Portuguese
word: herbívoro
lang: Romanian
word: ierbivor
lang: Russian
word: травоя́дное
roman: travojádnoje
lang: Scottish Gaelic
word: feòil-sheachnair
lang: Scottish Gaelic
word: lusair
lang: Scottish Gaelic
word: glasraichear
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: bȉljojēd
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: bȉljožder
lang: Turkish
word: otçul
lang: Volapük
word: planifidaf
lang: Volapük
word: planihifidaf
lang: Volapük
word: planijifidaf
lang: Welsh
word: llysysor
lang: Welsh
word: llysysydd