Meaning
Meat from a pig.
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Word origin
From Old French porc, from Latin porcus, meaning pig; after 1066 the French word named the meat while the English word pig kept naming the animal.
- Origin
- Latin
- Root
- porcus
- English cognates
- porcupine
Examples
roast .
The animal is a pig; the meat on your plate is pork.
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Pork is uncountable, so it takes no a and no plural.
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Some people avoid pork for religious reasons.
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Start your free weekThis word is taught in chapter 31, lesson 7: pork, ultimate, musician and 7 more words.