Aliment

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • n. Something that nourishes; food.
  • n. Something that supports or sustains.
  • v. To supply with sustenance, such as food: required by court order to aliment the abandoned family.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • n. Food.
  • n. Nourishment, sustenance.
  • v. To feed, nourish.
  • v. To sustain, support.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • n. That which nourishes; food; nutriment; anything which feeds or adds to a substance in natural growth. Hence: The necessaries of life generally: sustenance; means of support.
  • n. An allowance for maintenance.
  • v. To nourish; to support.
  • v. To provide for the maintenance of.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. That which nourishes or sustains; food; nutriment; sustenance; support, whether literal or figurative.
  • n. In Scots law, the sum paid for support to any one entitled to claim it, as the dole given to a pauper by his parish.
  • To furnish with means of sustenance; purvey to; support: generally in a figurative sense: as, to aliment a person's vanity.
  • In Scots law, to maintain or support, as a person unable to support himself: used especially of the support of children by parents, or of parents by children.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • v. give nourishment to
  • n. a source of materials to nourish the body
  • Verb Form
    alimented    alimenting    aliments   
    Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    give    feed   
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    food    nutriment    nourish    support    feed   
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts