vegan

Meanings

1. Not containing animal products (meat, eggs, milk, leather, etc) or inherently involving animal use.
2. Committed to avoiding any product or practice that inherently involves animal use.
3. Relating to vegans or veganism.

1. A person who does not eat, drink or otherwise consume any animal products
2. A person committed to avoiding products and practices that inherently involve animal use, including all foods containing animal products, and to abstaining from direct and intentional harm to animals as far as possible; an adherent to veganism.

1. Relating to the star Vega.

1. Someone from the vicinity of the star Vega.

1. Ellipsis of Las Vegan (“someone from Las Vegas”).
2. Someone from Vega in Norway.
3. Someone from Vega in Sweden.

Etymology

Etymology tree Middle English vegetable English vegetable English -arian English vegetarian English vegan Clipping of vegetarian or vegetable, 1944. Coined by English vegan activist Donald Watson of the Vegan Society and first used in the name of The Vegan News.