"meatless" meaning in English

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Adjective

IPA: /ˈmiːtləs/
Etymology: From Middle English meteles, from Old English metelēas (“foodless”), equivalent to meat + -less. Etymology templates: {{inh|en|enm|meteles}} Middle English meteles, {{inh|en|ang|metelēas|t=foodless}} Old English metelēas (“foodless”), {{suffix|en|meat|less}} meat + -less Head templates: {{en-adj|-}} meatless (not comparable)
  1. Without meat. Tags: not-comparable Categories (topical): Vegetarianism Derived forms: meatless loaf Translations (without meat): постен (posten) (Bulgarian), lihata (Estonian), lihaton (Finnish), fleischlos (German), hústalan (Hungarian), jarski [masculine] (Polish), bezmięsny [masculine] (Polish), etsiz (Turkish)
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          "text": "Are we to understand from paragraph 1 (c) that [the residents of Malta] are entirely meatless? or have they cattle they can kill, and if so how many?"
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          "roman": "posten",
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      "sense": "without meat",
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