pork in English: Meat from a pig. (noun)

Translation

Meat from a pig.

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.

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.

pig

A pink or brown farm animal with a flat nose and a short curly tail.

meat

The soft part of an animal that people cook and eat as food.

beef

The meat that comes from a cow.

chicken

A farm bird that people keep for its eggs and its meat.

dinner

The main meal of the day, often eaten in the evening.

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