veal
/viːl/
veal noun: the flesh of a calf (i.e. a young bovine) used for food.
Noun
veal (countable and uncountable, plural veals)
Verb
veal (third-person singular simple present veals, present participle vealing, simple past and past participle vealed)
- To raise a calf for meat production.
- The division outside the vealing place is for a cow that has had or is near having calf.1811, George B. Worgan, General View of the Agriculture of the County of Cornwall, Great Britain: Board of Agriculture, page 144
- It was about the size of a vealed calf, but shorter in the legs, and much longer in the body.1852, Thomas Mayne Reid, The Desert Home
Proper noun capitalized: Veal
Veal (plural Veals)
- A surname.
veal meaning in Tamil, Urdu, Malayalam and Tagalog
veal in Tamil
- கன்று இறைச்சி, பசுக்கன்றிறைச்சி, கன்றின்இறைச்சி
veal in Urdu
- بچھڑا, بچھڑے کا گوشت
veal in Malayalam
- കിടാവിൻറെ മാംസം
veal in Tagalog
- flesh of a calf
- karning-guya
More languagesFewer languages
- veal in Arabic
- لَحْم عِجْل laḥm ʕijl
- veal in Indonesian
- daging sapi muda
Examples of veal in a sentence
- Tell him, "Waiter, this veal tastes like the inside front panel of Ferdinand Magellan's shorts.
- Eg: “His ambiguphobic recipe for yoghurted veal occupies seven pages and four schematic drawings.”
- In the case of my food, schnitzel meant something like breaded, sauteed veal cutlet—schnitzely layers of meat.
Synonyms of veal
Forms of veal
| Noun | |
|---|---|
| plural | veals |
| alternative form (obsolete) | veale |
| alternative form (obsolete) | veel |
| Verb | |
| third-person singular present | veals |
| present participle | vealing |
| past participle | vealed |
| past | vealed |
| Proper noun | |
| plural | Veals |
Origin of veal
From Middle English veel, from Anglo-Norman veel, from Latin vitellus, diminutive of vitulus (“calf”). Doublet of vitellus.
Words formed from veal
Phrases with veal
Words that rhyme with veal
48 more rhymesFewer rhymes
- keel
- anneal
- creel
- peal
- peel
- sweal
- congeal
- Izmail
- kneel
- meal
- Neale
- streal
- weal
- awheel
- Castile
- cochineal
- feal
- heal
- Lille
- ordeal
- repeal
- sele
- squeal
- teal
- zeal
- ceil
- debile
- dishabille
- hele
- leal
- lifesteal
- Neil
- Niel
- O'Neill
- reveal
- schlemiel
- seel
- she'll
- shiel
- skeel
- spiel
- square meal
- unseal
- we'll
- weel
- ye'll
- -meal
- allele
Questions about veal
- What does veal mean?
- Veal means the flesh of a calf (i.e. a young bovine) used for food.
- What is veal in Tamil?
- Veal in Tamil is கன்று இறைச்சி, பசுக்கன்றிறைச்சி, கன்றின்இறைச்சி. See Veal meaning in Tamil.
- What part of speech is veal?
- Veal can be a noun, a verb or a proper noun.
- How do you pronounce veal?
- Veal is pronounced /viːl/.
- What is the plural of veal?
- The plural of veal is veals.
Words near veal in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: veal (page history and authors); Veal (page history and authors); veal (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); veal (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); veal (Malayalam 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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