According to Statista, the global coffee industry is worth US$363 billion in 2020. The market grows annually by 10.6%, and 78% of revenue came from out-of-home establishments like cafes and coffee beverage retailers.
MEATS
Noun
meats
plural of meat
Anagrams
• AEMTs, MTase, Mesta, STEAM, Satem, a-stem, mates, matse, matés, metas, satem, stame, steam, tames, teams
Source: Wiktionary
MEAT
Meat, n. Etym: [OE. mete, AS. mete; akin to OS. mat, meti, D. met hashed meat, G. mettwurst sausage, OHG. maz food, Icel. matr, Sw. mat, Dan. mad, Goth. mats. Cf. Mast fruit, Mush.]
1. 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. Chaucer. And God said, Behold, I have given you every herb bearing seed, . . . to you it shall be for meat. Gen. i. 29. Every moving thing that liveth shall be meat for you. Gen. ix. 3.
2. The flesh of animals used as food; esp., animal muscle; as, a breakfast of bread and fruit without meat.
3. Specifically, dinner; the chief meal. [Obs.] Chaucer. Meat biscuit. See under Biscuit.
– Meat earth (Mining), vegetable mold. Raymond.
– Meat fly. (Zoöl.) See Flesh fly, under Flesh.
– Meat offering (Script.), an offering of food, esp. of a cake made of flour with salt and oil.
– To go to meat, to go to a meal. [Obs.] -- To sit at meat, to sit at the table in taking food.
Meat, v. t.
Definition: To supply with food. [Obs.] Tusser. His shield well lined, his horses meated well. Chapman.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
Recent Word Finds
Word of the Day
28 February 2025
PRESCRIPTIVE
(adjective) pertaining to giving directives or rules; “prescriptive grammar is concerned with norms of or rules for correct usage”
Coffee Trivia
