vegetarian
/vɛ.d͡ʒɪˈtɛ.ɹi.ən/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.78 in modern English
14
Scrabble Score
10
Letters
5
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Without meat.
adj
Of a product normally made with meat, having non-meat substitutes in place of meat.
Example Sentences
- ""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!"
Etymology
From vegetable + -arian; popularized following the foundation of the British Vegetarian Society in 1847.
Word Breakdown
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /vɛ.d͡ʒɪˈtɛ.ɹi.ən/
- British English: /vɛ.d͡ʒɪˈtɛə.ɹi.ən/