Pork Definition, Meaning, and Usage Examples

Meaning 1：pig meat (Pork)

Pork 🔊

/pɔːrk/

The meat from a pig, often used in cooking and eating.

Pork chops cooking in a sunny kitchen with vegetables

pig meat 🔊

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/ˈpɪɡ miːt/

The edible flesh of a domestic pig, used as food in many cuisines worldwide.

📁 Category：Diet & Health 🔖 Level：beginner

📘 Details & Usage

📖 Root Explanation

From Latin 'porcus' (pig) via Old French 'porc'; related to porcine.

💡 Mnemonic

Pork sounds like 'fork' — you use a fork to eat pork chops. Remember: P-Fork.

📖 Example

For dinner, my mom made a delicious stir-fry with pork and broccoli. 🔊 My mother prepared a tasty stir-fried dish that included pork and broccoli for our evening meal.

🔗 Collocations

pork chop – a cut of pork from the loin, usually with a bone, often grilled or pan-fried

pulled pork – pork meat cooked slowly until tender and shredded, often served in sandwiches

pork belly – a fatty cut of pork from the belly, used for bacon or roasted as a dish

🔄 Synonyms

pig meat (n.) – the flesh of a pig used as food

swine flesh (n.) – the meat of a pig, less common in modern usage

porcine meat (n.) – meat from pigs, using the Latin-derived adjective

🌱 Derivatives

porker (n.) – a pig that has been fattened for food

porky (adj.) – resembling or characteristic of pork; fat

porcine (adj.) – of or relating to pigs

📖 Cultural Story

After the Norman Conquest, English kept 'swine' for the animal and adopted French 'pork' for the meat, creating a common animal/meat distinction.