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eater

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Princeton's WordNet

  1. eater, feedernoun

    someone who consumes food for nourishment

  2. eaternoun

    any green goods that are good to eat

    "these apples are good eaters"

Wiktionary

  1. eaternoun

    Agent noun of eat; one who eats.

Samuel Johnson's Dictionary

  1. Eaternoun

    Etymology: from eat.

    The Caribees and the Cannibals, almost all, are eaters of man’s flesh. George Abbot, Description of the World.

    A knave, a rascal, an eater of broken meats. William Shakespeare, K. Lear.

    If the taste of this fruit maketh the eaters like gods, why remainest thou a beast? Thomas Browne, Vulgar Errours, b. i. c. 1.

    As if the lotus grew only here, the virtue of whose fruit is to cause in the eaters an oblivion of all other soils. James Howell.

ChatGPT

  1. eater

    An eater is an organism or individual that consumes food for nutrients and energy. This term is often associated with humans but can also apply to animals and even certain plants or microorganisms that ingest other organic matter for survival. Eaters can be further classified based on their eating habits or diet, such as herbivores, carnivores, or omnivores.

Webster Dictionary

  1. Eaternoun

    one who, or that which, eats

Wikidata

  1. Eater

    Eater were an early British punk band from London who took their name from a Marc Bolan lyric. In 2001, the band’s second single, "Thinking of the USA", was included in a leading British music magazine’s list of the best punk-rock singles of all-time. In 1999, the track also re-appeared on the five CD box set ‘1-2-3-4: A History of Punk & New Wave’.

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Anagrams for eater »

  1. arete

  2. arête

  3. teare

  4. teaer

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of eater in Chaldean Numerology is: 8

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of eater in Pythagorean Numerology is: 4

Examples of eater in a Sentence

  1. De Barse:

    Fussy eating can really be a problem for the families, dinners can become very difficult. There is also some evidence that when a child continues to be a fussy eater there can continue to be additional health problems.

  2. Dean Lomax:

    The most intriguing feature of our footprint is a long portion preserved at the back of the foot, which is an impression of what we call the metapodium, the presence of this might suggest our large meat-eater was squatting down in the mud, before standing up and walking away. It’s fun to think this dinosaur might well have been strolling along a muddy coastal plain one lazy Sunday afternoon in the Jurassic.

  3. Craig Weller:

    A healthy eater might have a few nachos and be done, and that’s totally fine because he realizes that everything else he’s doing is healthy, so those few nachos don’t really matter in the grand scheme of his overall lifestyle.

  4. Candice Bergen:

    In the past 15 years .?.?. I have put on 30 pounds. I live to eat. None of this ‘eat to live’ stuff for me. I am a champion eater. No carb is safe — no fat, either.

  5. Aristotle:

    guess he wasnt a lotus eater-the frowned people of today-the land which time forgot to change-was the guru of alexandar the great-pity the lotus eaters(qoute the time machine)-my tribute to all the fallen ones-the lotus eaters-rest in peace in grave-pity you didnt have machiavellian persons like him to teach-the dear departed ones-let them at least know peace in their grave.

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