meatarian

meatarian

English

Etymology

meat +‎ -arian

Noun

meatarian (plural meatarians)

1. (rare) One who eats meat.
   • 1977, Psychonomic Society, Bulletin of the Psychonomic Society, Volume 10‎

     At the present, it appears that there is support for the notion that vegetarians respond (in a variety of ways) different from meatarians.

   • 1984, M Thomas Starkes, God's commissioned people‎

     Finally she divided the Hindu, Muslim, and Christian students into three categories: vegetarians, meatarians, and eggarians.

   • 2004, Kancha Ilaiah, Buffalo nationalism: a critique of spiritual fascism‎

     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.

2. (rare) A person who only eats meat.

Usage notes

Primarily used to contrast with vegetarian, referring to people who eat meat (in addition to vegetables, not to their exclusion).

Synonyms

• meatatarian
• omnivore

Antonyms

• vegetarian

Hypernyms

• carnivore

Translations

person who eats meat

Danish: kødspiser c

Anagrams

• natraemia