VEGETARIANISM

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does vegetarianism mean? 

• VEGETARIANISM (noun)
  The noun VEGETARIANISM has 1 sense:

1. a diet excluding all meat and fish

  Familiarity information: VEGETARIANISM used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• VEGETARIANISM (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A diet excluding all meat and fish

Classified under:

Nouns denoting foods and drinks

Hypernyms ("vegetarianism" is a kind of...):

diet (a prescribed selection of foods)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "vegetarianism"):

macrobiotic diet (a diet consisting chiefly of beans and whole grains)