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Meaning of eater | Babel Free

Noun CEFR C2 Standard
ˈiː.tɚ

Definitions

  1. A person or animal who eats
  2. A person or animal who eats.
  3. A fruit or other food that is suitable for eating, especially one that is intended to be eaten uncooked.
  4. A fruit or other food that is suitable for eating, especially one that is intended to be eaten uncooked
  5. A configuration of cells that appears to consume another configuration by gradually causing it to disappear.
  6. A configuration of cells that appears to consume another configuration by gradually causing it to disappear

Equivalents

العربية آكل الآكل
Català menjador
Deutsch Esser
Español comedor
Suomi syöjä
Français mangeur
Galego comedor
Magyar evő
Bahasa Indonesia pemakan
Italiano mangiatore
Latina ēsor
Македонски јадач
Nederlands eter
Português comedor
Română mâncător
Slovenščina jedec
Shqip hamës
Kiswahili mla
Türkçe yiyici
Українська їде́ць їдок

Examples

“a very fussy eater”
“"He is the right sort of man for a labourer, but he is a terrible eater, to be sure," thought the farmer.”
“"Eaters of human flesh, two things have ye done. First, ye have attacked these strangers, being white men, and would have slain their servant, and for that alone death is your reward."”
“Coal-eaters they may have been, but a more willing or harder working Atlantic engine was never designed.”
“I'm a slow but fastidious eater”
“Ice cream tastes good to the eater, and has the added advantage of providing a little chill of excitement […]”
“2001, Cool Sexy Guy, Story: Cheerleading Camp Group: alt.sex The girls were having lots of fun rolling around on the bed, though Kacie was a much better fingerer and occasional eater.”
“The bass is a fine eater.”
“For the British market, apples are classed as early, mid-season, or late, and subdivided into eaters or cookers.”
“But there are many queen bee configurations in which the debris is neutralized, including placement of a block or eater near the bee's turnaround point, or placing two queen bees in a line or at right angles in various positions and phases.”
“The eater can also destroy a snail, but changes its phase while doing so.”
“Probably even if it didn't fail catastrophically, any design like this would get stuck in an infinite loop pretty quick, upon hitting its first "cleaner-proof" ash -- an eater pattern that happens to absorb the test reaction without itself being altered.”

CEFR level

C2
Mastery
This word is part of the CEFR C2 vocabulary — mastery level.
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