Liberal Dictionary English Dictionary
locavore [loh-kuh-vawr, ‐vohr] EXAMPLES|WORD ORIGIN noun a person who makes an effort to eat food that is grown, raised, or produced locally, usually within 100 miles of home. Liberaldictionary.com
Origin of locavore 2005; loca(l) + -vore, on the model of carnivore, herbivore Dictionary.com Unabridged Based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2019 Examples from the Web for locavore Contemporary Examples of locavore
These are the standard selling points of the craft-distilling movement, with its locavore lingo, terroir talk, and handmade hype.
Your ‘Craft’ Rye Whiskey Is Probably From a Factory Distillery in Indiana
Eric Felten
July 28, 2014
Food critic Todd Kliman exposes the ridiculous double standard of the locavore movement and how they ignore great American wines.
Todd Kliman
July 8, 2010
Why is it that locavore restaurants serve food from the next farm over, but wine from France?
Todd Kliman
July 8, 2010
Word Origin and History for locavore n.
one who eats only locally grown or raised food, by 2001, from local + ending abstracted from carnivore, etc., ultimately from Latin vorare “to devour” (see voracity).
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2010 Douglas Harper
