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venison

[ ven-uh-suhn, -zuhn ]

noun

  1. the flesh of a deer or similar animal as used for food.


venison

/ ˈvɛnɪzən; -sən /

noun

  1. the flesh of a deer, used as food
  2. archaic.
    the flesh of any game animal used for food
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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Word History and Origins

Origin of venison1

1250–1300; Middle English ven ( a ) ison < Old French veneison, venaison < Latin vēnātiōn (stem of vēnātiō hunting), equivalent to vēnāt ( us ) ( venatic ) + -iōn- -ion
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Word History and Origins

Origin of venison1

C13: from Old French venaison, from Latin vēnātiō hunting, from vēnārī to hunt
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Example Sentences

Energy density is your grandmother’s diet, and it still worksThe food is venison.

If you want venison, but you’re just not a hunter, you don’t have a lot of options because selling wild venison is nearly always illegal.

Larger dinos, on the other hand, likely had large muscles that were constantly moving and needed a lot of oxygen, so they might’ve more closely resembled beef or venison.

Today, deer eat a similar diet, so some dinosaurs could’ve tasted like venison.

During hunting season, he stocks up on game such as venison and elk to eat throughout the year.

We had a vast vegetable garden, fruit trees, a henhouse, and my father would hunt most of our meat: venison, elk, bear.

Dinner, at 8pm, normally consists of venison or salmon and salad.

I should hope the city's homeless  people will be munching on some venison burgers for the foreseeable future.

One friend orders venison stuffed with foie gras and covered with cherries, “but was too lazy to touch it.”

This chair by British designer Thomas Heatherwick is now on view in his show at Haunch of Venison gallery in New York.

According to her mistress, she was specially gifted in preparing venison.

He gave a look of annoyance on perceiving the young man; still, he bowed slightly to him as he placed the venison on the table.

She motioned for Patricia to remain where she was and in a few minutes brought water in a gourd, and some venison.

A good venison pasty, and very merry, and pleasant I made myself with my Lady, and she as much to me.

And the man-at-arms forced the counter-jest, "After so much rat-flesh I shall lose all taste for venison."

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