meat

Other forms of meat

plural

meats·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about meat

What does meat mean?

meat means "the flesh of animals (including fishes and birds and snails) used as food". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in meat?

meat has 1 syllable: meat. In IPA it is /ˈmit/.

What is another word for meat?

Close synonyms include kernel, kernel, substance, core, center. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is meat a common word?

meat is banded "Core" — among the few thousand words that carry most english. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with meat?

3 words rhyme with meat. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.