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dairy

dairy

77 1.0
Food that people make from milk, like cheese, butter, and yogurt
  • noun
  • /ˈdɛri/
translation icon : lácteos
  • Many people enjoy a breakfast that includes dairy products like milk and yogurt.
  • dairy products
  • dairy milk
  • cheese and other dairy

Anything that's not meat, dairy, or fatty or salty.

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Examples

  • A lot of people think that high fat dairy will exacerbate their acne.

  • There's no meat or dairy in there whatsoever.

  • No meat, no fish, no dairy.

  • I think that we should not consume dairy at all.

  • Eggs, dairy and cheese are our friends.

  • Which is good, because you know I'm not really in the mood for any dairy products tonight.

  • But you can get vitamin D in tuna, eggs, and dairy products.

    Fiction book (2002)
  • Vegans can't have any dairy products.

  • The majority of children were eating dairy products, although a few families reported that children were lactose intolerant.

    Academic text (2006)
  • I don't eat meat and I don't eat dairy.

Synonyms

dairy product
vsdairy
20 1.4

Food that comes from animal milk, like cheese or yogurt

is a shorter single-word form for the same milk-based foods

Compounds

20 1.4

Food that comes from animal milk, like cheese or yogurt

14 1.8

A farm where cows are kept to produce milk and make cheese and butter

8 2.0

A person who keeps cows on a farm to make milk

5 1.5

A cow that is kept mainly to give milk

1 2.4

Animals kept to give milk rather than meat

Keeping cows to produce milk and cheese

How Rich

butter
635 1.0
cream
864 1.0
cheese
1.0
dairy
77 1.0
yogurt
  • US
176 1.0
milk
1.0
skim milk
  • US
11 2.0

Surface Forms

dairy singular
dairies plural

Etymology

Dairy also came to mean the food made from milk because the same word named the place and people who made those goods; so dairy now means 'milk products' like cheese, butter, and yogurt.