How to spell meat

Meat is spelled M-E-A-T.

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What it means: The flesh of animals used as food.

In a sentence: The cat loves to eat meat.

Not to be confused with: meet, a different word.

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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