meat

meat is a 4-letter English word with 7 senses as noun and transitive verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: Food, in general; anything eaten for nourishment, either by man or beast. Hence, the edible part of anything; as, the meat of a lobster, a nut, or an egg. Face value is 6 in Scrabble and 7 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

4 letters · Scrabble 6 · Words With Friends 7 · 7 senses

Definitions

1. noun. Food, in general; anything eaten for nourishment, either by man or beast. Hence, the edible part of anything; as, the meat of a lobster, a nut, or an egg.
2. noun. The flesh of animals used as food; esp., animal muscle; as, a breakfast of bread and fruit without meat.
3. noun. Specifically, dinner; the chief meal.
4. transitive verb. To supply with food.
5. noun. the choicest or most essential or most vital part of some idea or experience

   "the gist of the prosecutor's argument"

   "the heart and soul of the Republican Party"

   Synonyms: center, centre, core, essence, gist, heart, inwardness, kernel, marrow, nub, pith, substance

6. noun. the flesh of animals (including fishes and birds and snails) used as food
7. noun. the inner and usually edible part of a seed or grain or nut or fruit stone

   "black walnut kernels are difficult to get out of the shell"

   Synonyms: kernel

Synonyms

center, centre, core, essence, gist, heart, inwardness, kernel, marrow, nub, pith, substance, sum

Anagrams

Other playable words that use exactly the letters in meat:

mate, meta, tame, team, tema

Common word forms

meats, meatal, meated, meatless

Words from these letters

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