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dairy-free

adjectiveB1neutral

Dairy-free means made without milk or anything from it. A dairy-free option, dairy-free chocolate, is it dairy-free.

It is not the same as lactose-free, since lactose-free products are still made from milk, and somebody with a milk allergy cannot have them. Most of the world's adults cannot digest lactose easily, so the market is enormous.

Definitions of dairy-free

  1. 1adjectivedairy-freeMade without milk or anything from it.B1

    “My son is allergic to milk, so we buy dairy-free ice cream made from oats.”

dairy-free is a quality.

Where it comes from

Dairy plus free, on the pattern of the many -free labels food packaging uses.

  1. Proto-Indo-European

    *dʰeyǵʰ-

  2. Anglo-Norman

    deyerie — dairy

  3. Middle English

    deyerie — dairy, dairy farm

  4. English

    dairy

  5. English, today

    dairy-free

From dairy + free. dairy Middle English deyerie (“dairy, dairy farm”), from Anglo-Norman deyerie (“dairy”), from deye + -erie; by surface analysis, dey + -ry. Cognate with Scots dery, dyrie.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA

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the deyerie family

dairy

dairy-free — used too rare to measure · point at the bar for the others