meat
/miːt//mit/
meat noun: the flesh (muscle tissue) of a killed animal used as food.
Noun
meat (countable and uncountable, plural meats)
- The flesh (muscle tissue) of a killed animal used as food.
- A large portion of domestic meat production comes from animals raised on factory farms.
- The homesteading teenager shot a deer to supply his family with wild meat for the winter.
- A food designed to replicate its taste and texture (such as plant-based meat).
- A type of meat, by anatomic position and provenance.
- The butchery's profit rate on various meats varies greatly.
- It should come as no surprise that while the peasants are expected to eat fermented fungi, lab-grown meats and maggot milkshakes, the Controligarchs — with their private chefs — have no intention of doing the same.2023, Seamus Bruner, Controligarchs: Exposing the Billionaire Class, Their Secret Deals, and the Globalist Plot to Dominate Your Life
- Food, for animals or humans, especially solid food.
- meat and drink
- I was anhongred, and ye gave me meate. I thursted, and ye gave me drinke.1526, [William Tyndale, transl.], The Newe Testamẽt […] (Tyndale Bible), [Worms, Germany: Peter Schöffer], →OCLC, Matthew
- A type of food, a dish.
- A meal.
- And hit cam to passe, thatt Jesus satt at meate in his housse.1526, [William Tyndale, transl.], The Newe Testamẽt […] (Tyndale Bible), [Worms, Germany: Peter Schöffer], →OCLC, Matthew viij
- Meal; flour.
- Any relatively thick, solid part of a fruit, nut etc.
- The apple looked fine on the outside, but the meat was not very firm.
- She took her spoon and stirred the melted butter into the yellow meat of the yam.1954, Cothburn O'Neal, The Dark Lady, page 12
- A penis.
- He sits me on the floor (the shower is still beating down on us). He lays me down and slides his huge meat into me.1993, Nancy Friday, Women on top: how real life has changed women's sexual fantasies, page 538
- Just the tight, hot caress of his bowels surrounding my meat gave me pleasures I had only dreamed of before that day.2006, John Patrick, Play Hard, Score Big, page 54
- Synonyms:
- anaconda, baloney pony, bald-headed hermit, banana, bird, birdie, bobby, boonga, cack, choad
- The best or most substantial part of something.
- […]it is time to begin "A Dialogue between Viator and Piscator," which is the meat of the matter.1577, Gerald Eades Bentley, The Arte of Angling
- The editor called the new "novels" book-lengthers without the trivialities and slow development of the usual novel. "They have all the plot complications, meat and excitement that readers demand," he stated.2007, Robert Kenneth Jones, The Shudder Pulps, page 6
- The sweet spot of a bat or club (in cricket, golf, baseball etc.).
- He hit it right on the meat of the bat.
- A meathead.
- Throw it in here, meat.
- A totem, or (by metonymy) a clan or clansman which uses it.
- When a stranger comes to an aboriginal camp or settlement in north-western NSW, he is asked by one of the older aborigines: "What meat (clan) are you?"1949, Vol.XX, Oceania
- Granny Sullivan was ‘dead against’ the match at first because they did not know "what my meat was and because I was a bit on the fair side."1973, M. Fennel, A. Grey, Nucoorilma
meat meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Marathi and Urdu
meat in Hindi
- animal flesh used as food
- गोश्त gośt, मांस māns, माँस mā̃s, लहम laham
- type of meat
- माँस mā̃s, गोश्त gośt, लहम laham
- any sort of flesh
- गोश्त gośt, माँस mā̃s, लहम laham
meat in Tamil
- animal flesh used as food
- இறைச்சி iṟaicci, மாமிசம் māmicam
meat in Marathi
- animal flesh used as food
- मांस māusa
meat in Urdu
- animal flesh used as food
- گوشْت gośt, مان٘س mā̃s, لَحْم lahm
- type of meat
- گوشت gošt
- any sort of flesh
- گوشت gošt
More languagesFewer languages
- meat in Bengali
- মাংস maṅśo, গোশত gōśot
- meat in Telugu
- మాంసం māṁsaṁ
- meat in Malayalam
- ഇറച്ചി iṟacci, മാംസം māṁsaṁ
- meat in Kannada
- ಬಾಡು bāḍu
- meat in Punjabi
- ਗੋਸ਼ਤ gośat, ਮਾਸ mās, ਮੀਟ mīṭ
- meat in Gujarati
- ગોશ્ત gośt, માંસ mā̃s
- meat in Sanskrit
- मांस māṃsá, मांस् vsn, मास् vsn
- meat in Sinhala
- මස් mas
- meat in Assamese
- মাংস maṅxo, মঙহ moṅoh
- meat in Nepali
- मासु māsu, सिकार sikār
- meat in Pashto
- غوښه ǧwëẍa
- meat in Tagalog
- karne, laman
- meat in Arabic
- لَحْم laḥm, لحمة láḥma
- meat in Malay
- daging
- meat in Indonesian
- daging
- meat in Persian
- گوشْت gōšt, لَحْم lahm
- meat in Thai
- เนื้อ nʉ́ʉa
- meat in Vietnamese
- thịt
- meat in Myanmar
- အသား a.sa:, မံသ mamsa.
- Dzongkha
- ཤ sha
Examples of meat in a sentence
- In many parts of the world, shark meat is an acceptable and desirable form of protein.1983, Richard Ellis, The Book of Sharks, Knopf, →ISBN, page 144:
- And he was pleased to accompany them in their death; for, he pined away by abstaining from all manner of meat.1603, Michel de Montaigne, chapter 8, in John Florio, transl., The Essayes […], book II, London: […] Val[entine] Simmes for Edward Blount...
- Your greatest want is, you want much of meat: / Why should you want?c. 1605–1608 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Life of Tymon of Athens”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, &...
- As full of fun and frolic as an egg is full of meat.1879, Silas Hocking, Her Benny:
Synonyms of meat
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Antonyms
Forms of meat
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Origin of meat
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 Swedish mat (“food”), Gothic 𐌼𐌰𐍄𐍃 (mats, “food”). A -ja- derivation from the same base is found in Middle Dutch and Middle Low German met (“lean pork”), from which Dutch met (“minced pork”) and German Mett (“minced meat”) derive, respectively. Compare also Old Irish mess (“animal feed”) and Welsh mes (“acorns”), English mast (“fodder for swine and other animals”), which are probably from the same root.
Words formed from meat
- advanced meat recovery
- all garnish and no meat
- all motion and no meat
- antimeat
- Australian as a meat pie
- bakemeat
- batmeat
- bear meat
- beat one's meat
- beat the meat
- bushmeat
- bush meat
- calfmeat
- camel meat
- camp meat
- catmeat
- cat meat
- cat's meat
- chew the meat and spit out the bones
- chicken's-meat
- clean meat
- cockmeat
- coconut meat
- cold meat
- cold meat box
- cold meat cart
- cold meat train
- commodity meat
- cow meat
- crabmeat
- crab meat
- cuckoo's meat
- cultured meat
- dark meat
- dead meat
- deer meat
- deli meat
- dog meat
- don't get your meat where you get your bread
- double-dead meat
- duckmeat
- duck's-meat
- ducksmeat
- easy meat
- fancy meat
- fleshmeat
- forcemeat
- fragrant meat
- frankenmeat
- fresh meat
- fuckmeat
- fuck-meat
- gedempte meat
- girlmeat
- goatmeat
- ground meat
- hog meat
- horsemeat
- I don't eat meat
- inmeat
Phrases with meat
- meat ax
- meat ant
- meat axe
- meat bee
- meat box
- meat fly
- meat jun
- meat off
- meat pad
- meat pie
- meat rod
- meat tea
150 more phrasesFewer phrases
- red meat
- make meat
- meat ants
- meat axes
- meat ball
- meat bees
- meat draw
- meat fork
- meat glue
- meat hand
- meat hook
- meat loaf
- meat pads
- meat pies
- meat rack
- meat rods
- meat safe
- meat shot
- meat teas
- meat tray
- meat wool
- mock meat
- room meat
- rose meat
- salt meat
- star meat
- green meat
- light meat
- lunch meat
- meat balls
- meat boxes
- meat draws
- meat eater
- meat flaps
- meat flies
- meat floss
- meat forks
- meat hooks
- meat house
- meat jelly
- meat racks
- meat safes
- meat sauce
- meat shots
- meat space
- meat stick
- meat trays
- meat wagon
- smoke meat
- Sweet Meat
- think meat
- tiger meat
- wheat meat
- white meat
- meat crayon
- meat diaper
- meat eaters
- meat houses
- meat keeper
- meat market
- meat puppet
- meat raffle
- meat sauces
- meat shield
- meat sticks
- meat sweats
- meat ticket
- meat wagons
- minced meat
- monkey meat
- smoked meat
- meat assault
- meat biscuit
- meat crayons
- meat diapers
- meat grinder
- meat jellies
- meat keepers
- meat lovers'
- meat markets
- meat puppets
- meat raffles
- meat scepter
- meat sceptre
- meat shields
- meat syringe
- meat tickets
- mystery meat
- sausage meat
- sweater meat
- variety meat
- kangaroo meat
- luncheon meat
- meat assaults
- meat biscuits
- meat curtains
- meat grinders
- meat offering
- meat scepters
- meat sceptres
- meat syringes
- piece of meat
- ruminant meat
- beats the meat
- meat and drink
- meat and three
- meat injection
- meat offerings
- pieces of meat
- plates of meat
- processed meat
- synthetic meat
- vegetable meat
- beaten the meat
- cold meat boxes
- cold meat carts
- meat and threes
- meat injections
- red meat radish
- beating the meat
- beats one's meat
- cold meat trains
- meat and two veg
- meat in the room
- meat thermometer
- milk before meat
- red meat allergy
- beaten one's meat
- mad as a meat axe
- meat and potatoes
- meat on the bones
- red meat radishes
- tick meat allergy
- beating one's meat
- Rzhev Meat Grinder
- meat on one's bones
- more sauce than meat
- the other white meat
- Natchitoches meat pie
- mammalian meat allergy
- Natchitoches meat pies
- mystery meat navigation
- mammalian meat allergies
- tick-induced meat allergy
- lone-star-tick meat allergy
- mechanically separated meat
- chewed the meat and spat out the bones
- chewed the meat and spit out the bones
- chews the meat and spits out the bones
- one man's meat is another man's poison
Words that rhyme with meat
48 more rhymesFewer rhymes
- fleet
- retreat
- treat
- complete
- conceit
- repeat
- concrete
- discrete
- bittersweet
- suite
- cheat
- cleat
- deceit
- greet
- unseat
- compete
- defeat
- delete
- effete
- elite
- escheat
- indiscrete
- leet
- pleat
- skeet
- sleet
- accrete
- beet
- bleat
- gleet
- ifrit
- incomplete
- overeat
- overheat
- petite
- replete
- superheat
- teat
- tweet
- wheat
- yeet
- Bereshit
- Bow Street
- Crete
- discreet
- downbeat
- jeet
- keet
Questions about meat
- What does meat mean?
- Meat means the flesh (muscle tissue) of a killed animal used as food.
- What is meat in Hindi?
- Meat in Hindi is गोश्त (gośt), मांस (māns), माँस (mā̃s). See Meat meaning in Hindi.
- How do you use meat in a sentence?
- In many parts of the world, shark meat is an acceptable and desirable form of protein.
- What part of speech is meat?
- Meat is a noun.
- How do you pronounce meat?
- Meat is pronounced /miːt/.
- What is the plural of meat?
- The plural of meat is meats.
Words near meat in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: meat (page history and authors); ಬಾಡು (Kannada) (page history and authors); मासु (Nepali) (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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