vegetarian

Vegetarian food.

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

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /vɛ.d͡ʒɪˈtɛə.ɹi.ən/, /ˌvɛ.d͡ʒɪˈtɛə.ɹɪ.ən/

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• (General American) IPA^(key): /vɛ.d͡ʒɪˈtɛ.ɹi.ən/
• Rhymes: -ɛəɹiən
• Hyphenation: veg‧et‧a‧ri‧an

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, New York: Harper and Brothers, published 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, 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, 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:

     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.

   • 2013, Miles Chapman, Arnell Jesko, Escape Plan, spoken by Rottmayer (Arnold Schwarzenegger):

     Heh heh. You hit like a vegetarian!

2. An animal that eats only plants; a herbivore.

   Synonym: herbivore (standard term)

• Vegetarian (obsolete)

• (person who does not eat animals): vegan; lactovegetarian, lactarian; ovovegetarian, eggetarian; lacto-ovo-vegetarian, lactoovovegetarian, ovo-lacto-vegetarian, ovolactovegetarian

• (animal that also eats meat): omnivore
• (animal that only eats meat): carnivore
• (person that only eats meat): meatarian, meatatarian

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

   • 1893, David George Ritchie, Natural Rights: A Criticism of Some Political and Ethical Conceptions:

     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?

2. Without meat.
3. Of a product normally made with meat, having non-meat substitutes in place of meat.

   Synonym: plant-based

   • 2008, Wil Forbis, Acid Logic: A Decade of Humorous Writing on Pop Culture, Trash Cinema, and Rebel Music, page 208:

     Is there such a thing as a good tasting vegetarian hot dog? Cuz every one I've tried tasted like smelted tire.

4. That does not eat meat.

   Antonym: nonvegetarian

   I have a vegetarian brother

• fruitarian
• nutarian
• pescetarian
• vagitarian
• vegan

• vegetarianism on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

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Borrowed from French végétarien.

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vegetarian m or n (feminine singular vegetariană, masculine plural vegetarieni, feminine and neuter plural vegetariene)

1. vegetarian

Borrowed from English vegetarian.

vegetarian c

1. A vegetarian.

• vegetarianism
• vegetarisk

• vegetarian in Svensk ordbok (SO)
• vegetarian in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
• vegetarian in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)

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