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appetite

[ ap-i-tahyt ]

noun

  1. a desire for food or drink:

    I have no appetite for lunch today.

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  2. a desire to satisfy any bodily need or craving.

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  3. a desire or liking for something; fondness; taste:

    an appetite for power; an appetite for pleasure.

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appetite

/ əˈpɛtɪtɪv; ˈæpɪˌtaɪtɪv; ˈæpɪˌtaɪt /

noun

  1. a desire for food or drink
  2. a desire to satisfy a bodily craving, as for sexual pleasure
  3. usually foll by for a desire, liking, or willingness

    a great appetite for work

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Derived Forms

  • appetitive, adjective
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˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins

Origin of appetite1

1275–1325; Middle English appetit (< Anglo-French ) < Latin ²¹±è±è±ð³ÙÄ«³Ù³Ü²õ natural desire, equivalent to ²¹±è±è±ð³ÙÄ«- (variant stem of appetere; appetence ) + -tus suffix of v. action
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˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins

Origin of appetite1

C14: from Old French apetit, from Latin ²¹±è±è±ð³ÙÄ«³Ù³Ü²õ a craving, from appetere to desire ardently
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Idioms and Phrases

see whet one's appetite
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Example Sentences

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Here are a few tales to whet your appetite - or perhaps put you off your dinner.

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While accepting the government has no "appetite for debt cancellation", she said reducing the repayment period and the rate of interest the council is paying the government over its debts could be reviewed.

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The company’s appetite for new users brings Wynn-Williams to Myanmar, which Facebook sees as an untapped market of 60 million potential users.

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"Every individual will have a different appetite for risk and will value their own private information differently," California Attorney General Rob Bonta told the BBC by phone Monday.

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All of which prompts the question: if the world really has changed, how much appetite now or in the future might Labour have for a really far-reaching re-examination of how it approaches government?

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Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.

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