Meat

Noun

 * 1)  Food, for animals or humans, especially solid food. See also meat and drink:.
 * 2) * 1526, William Tyndale, trans. Bible, Matthew XXV:
 * I was anhongred, and ye gave me meate. I thursted, and ye gave me drinke.
 * 1) * 1623, William Shakespeare, Timon of Athens:
 * Your greatest want is, you want much of meat: / Why should you want? Behold, the Earth hath Rootes [...].
 * 1) * 1936, Djuna Barnes, Nightwood, Faber & Faber 2007, p. 13:
 * The way she said ‘dinner’ and the way she said ‘champagne’ gave meat and liquid their exact difference [...].
 * 1)  A type of food, a dish.
 * 2) * 1485, Thomas Malory, Le Morte Darthur, Book X:
 * Sir Palomydes entyrde into the castell; and within a whyle he was served with many dyverse metys.
 * 1)  A meal.
 * 2) * 1526, William Tyndale, trans. Bible, Matthew ch. 8:
 * And hit cam to passe, thatt Jesus satt at meate in his housse.
 * 1)  The flesh of an animal used as food.
 * 2) * 2010, Andy Atkins, The Guardian, 19 Oct 2010:
 * While people who eat no meat at all are identified and identifiable as vegetarians, there is no commonly accepted term for people who eat it only a couple of times a week and are selective about its quality.
 * 1)  Any relatively thick, solid part of a fruit, nut etc.
 * The apple looked fine on the outside, but the meat was not very firm.
 * 1)  The penis.
 * 2)  A type of meat, by anatomic position and provenance.
 * ''The butchery's profit rate on various meats varies greatly
 * 1)  The best or most substantial part of something.
 * We recruited him right from the meat of our competitor.
 * 1)  The sweet spot of a bat or club (in cricket, golf, baseball etc.).
 * He hit it right on the meat of the bat.
 * 1) A meathead.
 * Throw it in here, meat.
 * 1)  A totem; metonymy for its owner(s).
 * 2) * 1949, Oceania, Vol. XX
 * 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?"
 * 1) * 1973, M. Fennel & A. Grey, Nucoorilma
 * 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."
 * 1) * 1977, A. K. Eckermann, Group Organisation and Identity
 * Some people maintained that she was "sung" because her family had killed or eaten the "meat" (totem) of another group.
 * 1) * 1992, P. Taylor Tell it Like it Is
 * Our family […] usually married the red kangaroo "meat".
 * 1) * 1993, J. Janson, Gunjies
 * That’s a beautiful goanna. […]. He’s my meat, can’t eat him.

Synonyms

 * flesh
 * See also Thesaurus:meat

Antonyms

 * drink

Derived terms

 * beat the meat
 * dead meat
 * fresh meat
 * meat and two veg
 * meat draw
 * meat hook / meathook
 * meat pie


 * meat raffle
 * meat tray
 * meat wagon
 * meatball
 * meatface
 * meathead
 * meatman
 * meaty
 * sweatmeat

Adjectives for Meat
lean; sizzling; homely; substantial; immortal; choleric; wretched; corrupted; unctuous; miserable; wholesome; manufactured; perishable; fatty;  generous;  preserved; tainted.

Verbs for Meat
abstain from—; broil—; brown—; carve—; consume—; crave—; dispatch—; dive into ——; dress—; dry—; extract from—; grill—; grind—; inspect—; market—; parch—; pickle—; prepare—; refrigerate—; roll—; salt—; savor—; shred—; store—; tenderize —; tub—; weigh—; —ages; —deteriorates; —putrefies.

Thesaurus
Brazil nut, TLC, act of love, adultery, almond, almond paste, amande, amande douce, amandes mondees, aphrodisia, aspic, ass, axiom, bag, balling, ballocks, balls, barbecue, basics, basis, basket, beard, bench mark, best part, better part, bitter almond, blanched almonds, board, body, boiled meat, bouilli, bread, bread and butter, breasts, bulk, burden, burnt almond, cardinal point, care, carnal knowledge, case, center, cervix, chapter, cheer, chief thing, chow, civet, climax, clitoris, cod, cods, cohabitation, coition, coitus, coitus interruptus, comestibles, commerce, concern, congress, connection, copula, copulation, core, cornerstone, coupling, creature comfort, crisis, critical point, crux, cuisine, cullions, daily bread, diddling, distillate, distillation, eatables, eats, economic support, edibles, elixir, endowment, entertainment, essence, essential, essential matter, essentials, fabric, family jewels, fare, fast food, feast, feed, female organs, flesh, flower, focus, focus of attention, focus of interest, food, food and drink, foodstuff, forcemeat, fornication, fundamental, game, generality, genitalia, genitals, gist, gonads, goober, goober pea, gravamen, great point, ground-pea, groundnut, grub, hachis, hash, head, heading, health food, heart, high point, hot number, hypostasis, important thing, ingesta, inner essence, intercourse, intimacy, issue, jerky, joint, jugged hare, junk food, keep, kernel, keystone, kitchen stuff, labia, labia majora, labia minora, landmark, lingam, lips, livelihood, living, living issue, lovemaking, main body, main point, main thing, maintenance, major part, majority, making it with, male organs, manna, marital relations, marriage act, marrow, mass, material, material point, mating, matter, matter in hand, meal, medium, menue viande, mess, milestone, mince, most, mothering, motif, motive, nigger toe, noisette, noix, nourishment, nub, nucleus, nurture, nut, nutriment, nuts, nuts and bolts, nymphae, onanism, orgasm, ovary, ovum, pareunia, peanut, peanut butter, pemmican, penis, phallus, piece, piece of ass, piece of meat, pith, pivot, plurality, point, point at issue, point in question, postulate, pot roast, price support, principle, private parts, privates, privy parts, problem, procreation, provender, provision, provisions, pubic hair, pudenda, question, quid, quiddity, quintessence, real issue, recap, recapitulation, refection, refreshment, regalement, relations, repas, repast, reproductive organs, resume, roast, rocks, rubric, run-through, rundown, salient point, salted peanuts, sap, sausage meat, scrapple, screwing, scrotum, secondary sex characteristic, sense, sex, sex act, sex goddess, sex object, sex organs, sex queen, sexual climax, sexual commerce, sexual congress, sexual intercourse, sexual relations, sexual union, short, sine qua non, sleeping with, soul, sperm, spermary, spirit, spread, stud, stuff, subject, subject matter, subject of thought, subsidization, subsidy, subsistence, substance, substantive point, subvention, sum, sum and substance, summary, summation, support, sustainment, sustenance, sustentation, sweet almond, table, tender loving care, testes, testicles, text, the bottom line, the nitty-gritty, the point, theme, thrust, topic, treat, tucker, turning point, upkeep, upshot, uterus, vagina, venery, venison, viande, viands, victuals, vittles, vulva, womb, yoni

Etymology
From mete:, cognate with Frisian mete, Old Saxon meti,  maz:, Old Icelandic matr, Gothic mats, from a. A -ja- derivation from the same base is found in Middle Dutch and Middle Low German met "lean pork", whence Modern Low German Mett "minced meat" (whence 16th c. German Mettwurst, a kind of sausage)

Probably cognate with Old Irish mess "animal feed", Welsh mes "acorns". The further etymology is uncertain. Some suggest derivation from a Indo-European verb base cognate with Latin madere:, Greek μαστός:.

Translations

 * Afrikaans:
 * Albanian:
 * Arabic: لحم
 * Egyptian Arabic:
 * Armenian: միս
 * Belarusian: мяса
 * Bosnian:
 * Bulgarian:
 * Catalan:
 * Chamicuro:
 * Chinese:
 * Cantonese:
 * Mandarin: 肉
 * Croatian:
 * Czech:
 * Danish:
 * Dutch:
 * Esperanto:
 * Estonian:
 * Faroese: kjøt
 * Filipino: ,
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * Georgian:
 * German:
 * Greek:
 * Greenlandic:
 * Hebrew: בשר
 * Hindi: गोश्त, मांस / माँस
 * Hungarian:
 * Icelandic:
 * Ido:
 * Irish:
 * Italian:
 * Japanese: 肉
 * Korean: 고기
 * Latgalian:
 * Latin:
 * Latvian:
 * Lithuanian: mėsa
 * Macedonian: месо


 * Malay:
 * Malayalam: മാംസം (maamsam)
 * Maltese: laħam
 * Navajo:
 * Norwegian:
 * Nynorsk: kjøt
 * Old Church Slavonic:
 * Pashto:
 * Persian: گوشت
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian:
 * Russian:
 * Scottish Gaelic: feòil
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: месо
 * Roman: meso
 * Slovak:
 * Slovene:
 * Sotho:
 * Spanish:
 * Swahili: nyama (noun 9/10)
 * Swedish:
 * Tagalog: ,
 * Tajik:
 * Tatar:
 * Telugu: మాంసం (maamsam)
 * Thai: เนื้อ
 * Turkish:
 * Ukrainian: м'ясо
 * Urdu:, مانس
 * Vietnamese: thịt
 * Volapük: mit
 * Welsh:
 * West Frisian:
 * !Xóõ:
 * Yiddish:


 * Afrikaans: vleissoort
 * Arabic: (laħm)
 * Armenian: միս (mis)
 * Bosnian:
 * Catalan: carn
 * Chinese:
 * Cantonese: 肉 (juk6)
 * Mandarin: 肉 (ròu)
 * Croatian:
 * Czech:
 * Danish:
 * Dutch: vleessoort
 * Estonian:
 * Filipino: ,
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * German:
 * Greek:
 * Hebrew: בשר (basar)
 * Hungarian:
 * Icelandic:
 * Italian:
 * Japanese: 肉 (にく, niku)
 * Korean: 고기 (gogi)


 * Latin: ,
 * Latvian:
 * Malayalam: മാംസം (maamsam)
 * Maltese: laħam
 * Norwegian Bokmål: kjøtt
 * Norwegian Nynorsk: kjøt
 * Pashto:
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Russian:
 * Serbian:
 * Cyrillic: месо
 * Roman: meso
 * Slovak:
 * Slovene:
 * Spanish:
 * Swahili: nyama (noun 9/10)
 * Swedish:
 * Tagalog: ,
 * Telugu: మాంసం (maamsam)
 * Urdu:
 * Welsh:
 * West Frisian:


 * Arabic: (laħm)
 * Armenian: միս (mis)
 * Bosnian:
 * Catalan:
 * Chinese:
 * Cantonese: 肉 (juk6)
 * Mandarin: 肉 (ròu)
 * Croatian:
 * Czech:
 * Danish:
 * Dutch:
 * Estonian:
 * Filipino:
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * German:
 * Greek:
 * Hebrew: בשר (basar)
 * Hungarian:
 * Icelandic:
 * Italian:
 * Japanese: 肉 (にく, niku)


 * Korean: 고기 (gogi)
 * Latin: ,
 * Malayalam: മാംസം (maamsam)
 * Maltese: laħam
 * Norwegian Bokmål: kjøtt
 * Norwegian Nynorsk: kjøt
 * Pashto:
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Russian: мякоть,
 * Serbian:
 * Cyrillic: месо
 * Roman: meso
 * Slovak:
 * Slovene:
 * Spanish:
 * Swahili: nyama (noun 9/10)
 * Swedish:
 * Tagalog:
 * Telugu: మాంసం (maamsam)
 * Urdu:
 * West Frisian:


 * Catalan:
 * Dutch: vruchtvlees


 * Greek: σάρκα
 * Italian:


 * Catalan:
 * Dutch: substantie, vlees op de botten
 * Finnish: ,


 * French:
 * Swahili: nyama (noun 9/10)


 * Dutch: hansworst, lulvent


 * Finnish: läskipää


 * : mish
 * : (laħm)
 * : meso
 * : kig
 * Chinese:
 * : 肉 (juk6)
 * : 肉 (ròu)
 * : meso
 * : viando
 * : liha
 * : בשר (basar)
 * : गोश्त (gošt)
 * : kjöt
 * : piärgu
 * : daging
 * : 肉 (にく, niku)


 * : 고기 (gogi)
 * : san
 * : goşt,
 * Latin: ,
 * : മാംസം (maamsam)
 * : laħam
 * : biergu
 * : kjøtt
 * : kjøt
 * : (gošt)
 * : kuka
 * Cyrillic: месо
 * Roman: meso
 * : vuä´ǯǯ
 * : mäso
 * : meso
 * : nyama (noun 9/10)
 * : kött
 * : మాంసం (maamsam)
 * : na'an
 * : ཤ་ (sha)
 * : thịt
 * : thịt

Anagrams

 * mate, maté
 * meta, Meta
 * tame
 * team