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venison

venison

27 6.1
Meat from a deer that people eat
  • noun
  • /ˈvɛnɪsən/
translation icon : carne de venado
  • For dinner, we enjoyed a delicious dish made with venison that had been marinated in herbs.
  • venison stew
  • venison steak
  • venison roast

It's probably more akin to venison or antelope wild game.

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Examples

  • Tonight we have charred venison with buckwheat spaetzle and green peppercorn.

  • When you take venison versus ground beef, you put it in a pot of chili.

  • You have one hour to make us a venison dish that you could feed to a king or a queen.

  • This is raw ground venison.

  • I just got hungry for the taste of venison.

  • So, here we've got some venison meat pie.

  • I've been smoking some venison outside all morning.

  • Eat bison, eat lamb, eat beef, eat venison, but get more red meat.

  • Now, for the entree... we'll have venison and hominy grits.

  • His uncle John had sent a kilo of venison jerky and a kilo of smoked dried salmon.

    Fiction book (1998)

Synonyms

meat
vsvenison
1.0

The flesh of animals that people eat

comes from deer specifically rather than any animal flesh
red meat
vsvenison
41 2.0

Meat from animals like cows or sheep that is red before cooking

comes from deer specifically rather than many mammals

How Lean

venison
27 6.1
chicken
586 1.0
lamb
133 1.0
beef
45 1.0
pork
342 1.0

Surface Forms

venison singular
venisons plural

Etymology

The word venison comes from Old French venaison, from the Latin verb venari, which means 'to hunt'. It originally meant the meat of animals you caught by hunting, which is why venison today means 'meat from a deer'.