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locavore

locavore noun: one who tries to eat only locally grown foods.

Noun

locavore (plural locavores)

  1. (neologism) One who tries to eat only locally grown foods.
    • So I do think that there is a wonderful opportunity for us to find a carbon-neutral energy source where it is not only a beneficial model environmentally but we are sort of becoming forest and energy locavores, if you will, and so that is what we are trying to establish through this idea of a...2007 March 12, U.S. Government Printing Office, quoting James Daley, 2007 Farm Bill Opportunities for Vermont and the Northeast: Hearing before the Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry...
    • They are a locavore’s (someone who eats food produced within 100 miles of he lives) paradise.2007, Brenda Berstler, Home Plate: The Culinary Road Trip of Cooperstown: A Guidebook for the Discerning Visitor, Savor New York, →ISBN, page 243
    Synonyms:
    localvore
    Antonyms:
    distavore

locavore meaning in Tamil

locavore in Tamil

தன்னூர் உணவு விரும்பி

Synonyms of locavore

Antonyms

  • distavore

Forms of locavore

plurallocavores
alternative formlocalvore

Origin of locavore

From loca(l) + -vore. Coined by Jen Maiser, Jessica Prentice, Sage Van Wing, and DeDe Sampson, co-founders of the “Locavores” web site in 2005.

Words formed from locavore

Questions about locavore

What does locavore mean?
Locavore means one who tries to eat only locally grown foods.
What is locavore in Tamil?
Locavore in Tamil is தன்னூர் உணவு விரும்பி. See Locavore meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is locavore?
Locavore is a noun.
What is the plural of locavore?
The plural of locavore is locavores.

Words near locavore in the dictionary

  1. locator map
  2. locator maps
  3. locator outer marker
  4. locator outer markers
  5. locators
  6. locavore
  7. locavores
  8. locavorism
  9. locavorous
  10. LOCC
  11. LoCced

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: locavore (page history and authors); locavore (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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