EATER

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does eater mean? 

• EATER (noun)
  The noun EATER has 2 senses:

1. someone who consumes food for nourishment

2. any green goods that are good to eat

  Familiarity information: EATER used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• EATER (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Someone who consumes food for nourishment

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

eater; feeder

Hypernyms ("eater" is a kind of...):

consumer (a person who uses goods or services)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "eater"):

devourer (someone who eats greedily or voraciously)

diner (a person eating a meal (especially in a restaurant))

dunker (an eater who dips food into a liquid before eating it)

glutton; gourmand; gourmandizer; trencherman (a person who is devoted to eating and drinking to excess)

gobbler (a hasty eater who swallows large mouthfuls)

luncher (someone who is eating lunch)

mouth (a person conceived as a consumer of food)

mycophage; mycophagist (a person or animal who eats fungi (especially mushrooms))

nosher; snacker (someone who eats lightly or eats snacks between meals)

omnivore (a person who eats all kinds of foods)

picknicker; picnicker (a person who is picnicking)

gorger; scoffer (someone who eats food rapidly and greedily)

vegetarian (eater of fruits and grains and nuts; someone who eats no meat or fish or (often) any animal products)

Derivation:

eat (eat a meal; take a meal)

eat (take in solid food)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Any green goods that are good to eat

Classified under:

Nouns denoting foods and drinks

Context example:

these apples are good eaters

Hypernyms ("eater" is a kind of...):

garden truck; green goods; green groceries; produce (fresh fruits and vegetable grown for the market)

Derivation:

eat (take in solid food)

 Context examples 

The yogurt eaters were also 26% less likely to develop adenomas with the highest potential to turn into cancer.

(Eating Yogurt May Lower Risk of Colon Cancer in Men, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

Your man-eater, as they of India call the tiger who has once tasted blood of the human, care no more for the other prey, but prowl unceasing till he get him.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

Were it mixed with any ordinary dish the eater would undoubtedly detect it, and would probably eat no more.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

The slug belongs to the sacoglossans, a group of more than 300 species that are such enthusiastic eaters of plants that many turn green and some resemble leaves.

(New sea slug species discovered near condominiums of Florida’s Cedar Key, National Science Foundation)

Sharks, marine scientists say, are often misunderstood, described as ravenous man-eaters.

(Sharks, the seagrass protectors, National Science Foundation)

Black holes are famous for being ravenous eaters, but they do not eat everything that falls toward them.

(NuSTAR Probes Black Hole Jet Mystery, NASA)

A dainty eater, he found that his mates, finishing first, robbed him of his unfinished ration.

(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)

We saw many small animals, such as porcupines, a scaly ant-eater, and a wild pig, piebald in color and with long curved tusks.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

There were the eaters and the eaten.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

Carnivora are primarily meat eaters, however bears are omnivorous and herbivorous pandas may consume fish and insects.

(Carnivora, NCI Thesaurus)