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Meaning of Vegetarian | Babel Free

Noun CEFR C1 Standard
vɛ.d͡ʒɪˈtɛə.ɹi.ən

Definitions

  1. A person who does not eat animal flesh, or, in some cases, use any animal products.
  2. Obsolete spelling of vegetarian.
  3. An animal that eats only plants; a herbivore.

Equivalents

العربية نباتي
Dansk vegetar
Esperanto vegetarano
עברית צמחוני
हिन्दी शाकाहारी
Հայերեն բուսակեր
Íslenska grænmetisæta
Italiano vegetariano
Lietuvių vegetaras
Bahasa Melayu pemayur vegetarian
Română vegetariană
Slovenščina vegetarijanec
Kiswahili mla mboga
Tagalog hingutan
Türkçe etyemez vejetaryen
Tiếng Việt ăn chay chay

Examples

“"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."”
“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.”
“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.”
“I went in for all books available on vegetarianism and read them. One of these, Howard Williams' The Ethics of Diet, was a 'biographical history of the literature of humane dietetics from the earliest period to the present day'. It tried to make out, that all philosophers and prophets from Pythagoras and Jesus down to those of the present age were vegetarians.”
“Many vegetarians abhor the thought of killing animals to feed themselves and also the methods by which animals are slaughtered.”
“Heh heh. You hit like a vegetarian!”
““I must preface this essay by the confession that I am myself a Vegetarian, and that I mean to say all the good I can of the principles of Vegetarianism.””

CEFR level

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