meat
Pronunciation: /miːt/
The English word “meat” has 13 meanings listed here.
noun
- The flesh (muscle tissue) of a killed animal used as food.
- A food designed to replicate its taste and texture (such as plant-based meat).
- A type of meat, by anatomic position and provenance.
- Food, for animals or humans, especially solid food.
- A type of food, a dish.
- A meal.
- Meal; flour.
- Any relatively thick, solid part of a fruit, nut etc.
- A penis.
- The best or most substantial part of something.
- The sweet spot of a bat or club (in cricket, golf, baseball etc.).
- A meathead.
- A totem, or (by metonymy) a clan or clansman which uses it.
Etymology
Inherited from Middle English mete (“food”), from Old English mete (“food”), from Proto-West Germanic *mati (“food”), from Proto-Germanic *matiz (“food”), from Proto-Indo-European *meh₂d- (“to be wet; grease, fat”). Cognates Cognate with North Frisian Miit (“meat”), Danish mad (“food”), Faroese and Icelandic matur (“food, meal”), Norn mader (“food”), Norwegian Bokmål, Norwegian Nynorsk, and…
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