pareve

1. 1.

   containing no meat or milk (or their derivatives) and thus eatable with both meat and dairy dishes according to the dietary laws of Judaism

   “pareve margarine”

   “parvebread”

   Synonymsparve

   Similaredible

   Yiddish

Other forms of pareve

comparative

parever·

superlative

parevest·

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 pareve

What does pareve mean?

pareve means "containing no meat or milk (or their derivatives) and thus eatable with both meat and dairy dishes according to the dietary laws of Judaism".

How many syllables are in pareve?

pareve has 2 syllables: pa-reve. The stress falls on "pa".

What is another word for pareve?

Close synonyms include parve. 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 pareve a common word?

pareve is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.