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say it: vej-uh-TER-ee-uhn
vegetarian is a noun meaning "eater of fruits and grains and nuts; someone who eats no meat or fish or (often) any animal products". It is pronounced /ˌvɛdʒəˈtɛˌɹiən/ — vej-uh-TER-ee-uhn. It carries one recorded sense.
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.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for vegetarian come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.