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meatarian en · NOUN

Pronunciation

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Etymology

From meat + -arian.

Meanings

1. (rare) One who eats meat.
   • Finally she divided the Hindu, Muslim, and Christian students into three categories: vegetarians, meatarians, and eggarians. 1984, M Thomas Starkes, God's commissioned people:
   • If India is defined as a nation of productive skills — of tilling land, of cutting crops — its holistic (meatarian and vegetarian) food culture, its symbols of civilization such as the pot, wheel, shoe, sculpture and so on — it belongs to the Adivasis, Dalits and OBCs. 2004, Kancha Ilaiah, Buffalo nationalism: a critique of spiritual fascism:
   • At the present, it appears that there is support for the notion that vegetarians respond (in a variety of ways) different from meatarians. 1977, Psychonomic Society, Bulletin of the Psychonomic Society, Volume 10:
2. (rare) A person who only eats meat.

Forms

Antonyms

vegetarian

Hypernyms

carnivore

Synonyms

omnivore · meatatarian

Translations (6)

kix tâthìehnyù (person who predominantly eats meat) · pl mięsożerca (person who predominantly eats meat) · da kødspiser (person who eats meat) · fr carniste (person who eats meat) · pl mięsożerca (person who eats meat) · kix tâthìehnyù (person who eats meat)