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aliment

noun
/ˈæ.lɪ.mənt/UK

Etymology

From French aliment, from Latin alimentum (“food”).

  1. derived from alimentum
  2. borrowed from aliment

Definitions

  1. Food.

    • In the living state, the body is observed to receive aliment; [...]

  2. Nourishment, sustenance.

    • All this monotony might be a good aliment for a poet but what if one had no gifts?

  3. An allowance for maintenance

    An allowance for maintenance; alimony.

  4. ›+ 2 more definitions

    1. To feed, nourish.

    2. To sustain, support.

      • Yet there would also be many – and not simply the powerful and ultra-privileged – who lost out, and whose discontent operated as a kind of political yeast, alimenting ‘unpatriotic’ thoughts and acts.

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Derived

alimentative

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for aliment. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA