vegan

Meanings

Adjective

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

Noun

• A person who does not eat, drink or otherwise consume any animal products
• 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.

Origin

• or vegetable, 1944. of the Vegan Society and first appeared in The Vegan News.