Eater
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Definition
(noun.) any green goods that are good to eat; 'these apples are good eaters'.
(noun.) someone who consumes food for nourishment.
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Definition
(n.) One who, or that which, eats.
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Examples
- Were it mixed with any ordinary dish the eater would undoubtedly detect it, and would probably eat no more. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
- I myself have never had enough to eat but I am a big eater and I have not starved. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
- He was usually a great eater, and I wished to give myself some diversion in half starving him. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
- It stinks of the offal you feed on, you scavenger dog, you eater of corpses. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- Vere does the mince-pies go, young opium-eater? Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
- He used to be slender as an eel, and now I fancy in him a sort of heavy dragoon bent--a beef-eater tendency. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- There were also a number of great flesh-eaters who preyed upon these herbivores. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- We are big eaters. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
- The eaters of the dinner, like the dinner itself, were lukewarm, insipid, overdone--and all owing to this poor little dull Young Barnacle. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
- Eaters of the milk of thy fathers. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
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