adj
Meaning 1
Bred to be eaten.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: not-comparable
Examples
- eating chickens; eating quails
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Standard Lemma guide
eating
Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.
Sound
Pronunciation
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Received-Pronunciation: /ˈiːtɪŋ/
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US: /ˈi.tɪŋ/
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US: [ˈi.ɾɪŋ]
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Midlands, Northern-England: /ˈiːtɪŋɡ/ without the NG-coalescence
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rhymes with -iːtɪŋ
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CMU ARPABET: IY1 T IH0 NG Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
adj
Meaning 2
Suitable to be eaten without being cooked.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: not-comparable
Examples
- Wait! That's not an eating apple.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
noun
Meaning 3
The act of ingesting food.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
noun
Meaning 4
Food; cooking, cuisine.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, dialectal, informal, uncountable
Examples
- I remember when we visited Aunt Martha's house, we had some really good eating!
- These pears are good eating.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
noun
Meaning 5
The act of corroding or consuming some substance.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
verb
Meaning 6
present participle and gerund of eat
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: form-of, gerund, participle, present
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
noun
Meaning 7
the act of consuming food
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: feeding
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: consumption, ingestion, intake, uptake
Narrower terms: mycophagy, bite, chomp, browse, browsing, coprophagy, coprophagia, dining, engorgement, feasting, banqueting, graze, grazing, lunching, repletion, surfeit, supping, tasting, savoring, savouring, relishing, degustation, necrophagia, necrophagy, omophagia, scatophagy
History
Etymology
From Middle English etynge, from Old English eting.
Across languages
Translations
45 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Finnish: ruoka- — suitable to be eaten without cooking
- Arabic: أَكْل (ʔakl) — the act of consuming food
- Bulgarian: хра́нене (hránene) — the act of consuming food
- Chichewa: kudyá — the act of consuming food
- Czech: jídlo — the act of consuming food
- Czech: jezení — the act of consuming food
- Finnish: syöminen — the act of consuming food
- Finnish: ruokailu — the act of consuming food
- German: Essen — the act of consuming food
- East Central German: Assn — the act of consuming food
- Hebrew: אֲכִילָה — the act of consuming food
- Hindi: भक्षण (bhakṣaṇ) — the act of consuming food
- Hungarian: evés — the act of consuming food
- Indonesian: pemakanan — the act of consuming food
- Ingrian: söömiin — the act of consuming food
- Italian: mangiare — the act of consuming food
- Japanese: 食べること (taberu koto) — the act of consuming food
- Kabyle: učči — the act of consuming food
- Korean: 먹기 (meokgi) — the act of consuming food
- Macedonian: јадење (jadenje) — the act of consuming food
- Malay: pemakanan — the act of consuming food
- Ngarrindjeri: yayun — the act of consuming food
- Old English: ǣt — the act of consuming food
- Polish: jedzenie — the act of consuming food
- Portuguese: consumível — the act of consuming food
- Russian: приём пи́щи (prijóm píšči) — the act of consuming food
- Russian: приня́тие пи́щи (prinjátije píšči) — the act of consuming food
- Swahili: kula — the act of consuming food
- Telugu: తినుట (tinuṭa) — the act of consuming food
- Zigula: kudya class 15 — the act of consuming food
- Belarusian: е́жа (jéža) — food, comestibles
- Bulgarian: храна́ (hraná) — food, comestibles
- Finnish: ruoka — food, comestibles
- French: bouffe — food, comestibles
- French: manger — food, comestibles
- Ingrian: rooka — food, comestibles
- Ingrian: söökki — food, comestibles
- Ingrian: toitto — food, comestibles
- Ingrian: toittu — food, comestibles
- Ingrian: söömiin — food, comestibles
- Macedonian: лапачка (lapačka) — food, comestibles
- Portuguese: comestível — food, comestibles
- Russian: еда́ (jedá) — food, comestibles
- Russian: пи́ща (píšča) — food, comestibles
- Ukrainian: ї́жа (jíža) — food, comestibles
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