meats
SayMEETS/mits/
- 1Plural of meat.
The platter held an assortment of cured meats and sharp cheeses.
Smoked meats drew the longest lines at the festival stalls.
Note
A plural that counts kinds, not pieces. Meat on its own is usually a mass noun (some meat, more meat), so meats signals variety by cut or by animal: cured meats, smoked meats, exotic meats such as ostrich, wild boar and crocodile. In archaic use the plural reached further, naming dishes or foods of any sort, not only flesh.
meats is a form of meat
meat, noun: The flesh of an animal eaten as food, or a particular kind of it, such as beef or lamb; also plant-based food made to copy it. Full entry
- Forms
- meatmeats plural
- Spelling
- meat → meats: add -s
- Sound
- The ending sounds like /s/.
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