meat

noun
mēt

The flesh (muscle tissue) of a killed animal used as food.

Other meanings

A food designed to replicate its taste and texture (such as plant-based meat).
A type of meat, by anatomic position and provenance.
“The butchery's profit rate on various meats varies greatly.”

A kind of

solid food

Kinds of meat

stew meat
bird
game
dark meat
raw meat
red meat
variety meat
cut

Example sentences

“Most people don't need to eat meat.”
Tatoeba · shekitten · CC0
“How many people work at this meat-packing plant?”
Tatoeba · ddnktr · CC0
“You look like you eat a lot of meat.”
Tatoeba · Miktsoanit · CC0

Where this comes from

This definition is adapted from “meat” on Wiktionary, by its contributors; example sentences are from Tatoeba, credited to their authors above; related-word lists use Open English WordNet (CC BY 4.0, based on Princeton WordNet), published under CC BY-SA 4.0. This page is published under the same licence.