Definition of "vegetarian" in English

noun

1. A person who does not eat animal flesh, or, in some cases, use any animal products.

   • 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.

2. An animal that eats only plants; a herbivore.

adjective

1. Of or relating to the type of diet eaten by vegetarians (in all senses).

2. Without meat.

3. Of a product normally made with meat, having non-meat substitutes in place of meat.

4. That does not eat meat.

   • I have a vegetarian brother