meat
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Noun (3)meats
- the flesh of animals (including fishes and birds and snails) used as foodType of solid foodKinds pork, beef, mouton, pemmican, sausage, bird, red meat, horsemeat, escargot, veal +12 moreMade of protein, palmitic acid
- the inner and usually edible part of a seed or grain or nut or fruit stone“black walnut kernels are difficult to get out of the shell”Synonyms: kernelType of plant part, plant structurePart of seed
- the choicest or most essential or most vital part of some idea or experience“the gist of the prosecutor's argument”“the heart and soul of the Republican Party”“the nub of the story”Synonyms: kernelsubstancecorecentercentreessencegistheartheart and soulinwardnessmarrownubpithsumnitty-grittyType of content, cognitive contentKinds stuff, quiddity, bare bones, quintessence, hypostasis
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Translations
Noun type of meat
- Spanish
- carne
- French
- viande
- German
- Fleisch
- Italian
- carne
- Portuguese
- carne
- Turkish
- et
- Russian
- мя́со mjáso
- Arabic
- لَحْم laḥm
- Chinese
- 肉 ròu
- Japanese
- 肉 niku
36 more languages
- Dutch
- vlees
- Polish
- mięso
- Swedish
- kött
- Greek
- κρέας kréas
- Korean
- 고기 gogi
- Indonesian
- daging
- Vietnamese
- thịt
- Hungarian
- hús
- Portuguese (PT)
- carne
- Chinese (Trad.)
- 肉 ròu
- Albanian
- mish
- Breton
- kig
- Catalan
- carn
- Corsican
- carne
- Czech
- maso
- Danish
- kød
- Esperanto
- viando
- Estonian
- liha
- Finnish
- liha
- Georgian
- ხორცი xorci
- Hebrew
- בָּשָׂר basár
- Icelandic
- kjöt
- Kurdish
- goşt
- Latvian
- gaļa
- Lithuanian
- mėsa
- Malagasy
- hena
- Norwegian
- kjøtt
- Romanian
- carne
- Scottish Gaelic
- feòil
- Serbo-Croatian
- meso
- Slovak
- mäso
- Slovenian
- meso
- Swahili
- nyama
- Walloon
- tchå
- Welsh
- cig
- Yiddish
- פֿלייש fleysh
The main translation for each meaning, from the langtolang.com multilingual dictionary. Each word links to its full entry there.
Webster's Dictionary (1913)
Origin: OE. mete, AS. mete; akin to OS. mat, meti, D. met hashed meat, G. mettwurst sausage, OHG. maz food, Icel. matr, Sw. mat, Dan. mad, Goth. mats. Cf. Mast fruit, Mush.
1. Food, in general; anything eaten for nourishment, either by man or beast. Hence, the edible part of anything; as, the meat of a lobster, a nut, or an egg. Geoffrey Chaucer
And God said, Behold, I have given you every herb bearing seed,... to you it shall be for meat.— Gen. i. 29.
Every moving thing that liveth shall be meat for you.— Gen. ix. 3.
2. The flesh of animals used as food; esp., animal muscle; as, a breakfast of bread and fruit without meat.
3. Specifically: Dinner; the chief meal. obsolete Geoffrey Chaucer
Meat biscuit. See under Biscuit. — Meat earth Mining, vegetable mold. Raymond, Rossiter Worthington — Meat fly. Zoology See Flesh fly, under Flesh. — Meat offering Scripture, an offering of food, esp. of a cake made of flour with salt and oil. — To go to meat, to go to a meal. obsolete — To sit at meat, to sit at the table in taking food.
To supply with food. obsolete Thomas Tusser
His shield well lined, his horses meated well.— George Chapman
Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), from GCIDE 0.54