vegetarian

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

• (General American) IPA^(key): /vɛd͡ʒɪˈtɛɹi.ən/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /vɛd͡ʒɪˈtɛəɹi.ən/, /ˌvɛd͡ʒɪˈtɛəɹɪən/
• Rhymes: -ɛəriən

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, Harper and Brothers, New York, 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 and 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 and 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.

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

   Synonym: herbivore (standard term)

• (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

2. Without meat.
3. Of a product normally made with meat, having non-meat substitutes in place of meat.
   • 2008, Wil Forbis, Acid Logic: A Decade of Humorous Writing on Pop Culture, Trash Cinema, and Rebel Music, p. 208:

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

4. (of a person) That does not eat meat.

   I have a vegetarian brother

• vegan
• vegetarianism

• fruitarian
• vagitarian
• nutarian
• pescetarian
• vegan

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Borrowed from English vegetarian.

vegetarian c

1. A vegetarian.

• vegetarianism