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How to spell meat
What it means: The flesh of animals used as food.
In a sentence: The cat loves to eat meat.
The part people get wrong
Often misspelled as meet or mete.
Sounds like, but is not: meet. Same sound, different spelling and meaning.
Same family: meaty, meatiness, substance, core, essence. If you can spell one, the shared part carries to the others.
Where it comes from: “Meat” comes from Old English *mete*, which originally meant any kind of food, not just animal flesh. Over time, its meaning narrowed, and in modern English it can also figuratively mean the “substance” or essential part of something, as in “the meat of the story.”
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