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nutriment

[ noo-truh-muhnt, nyoo- ]

noun

  1. any substance or matter that, taken into a living organism, serves to sustain it in its existence, promoting growth, replacing loss, and providing energy.
  2. anything that nourishes; nourishment; food.


nutriment

/ ËŒnjuËtrɪˈmÉ›ntÉ™l; ˈnjuËtrɪmÉ™nt /

noun

  1. any material providing nourishment
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged†2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Derived Forms

  • nutrimental, adjective
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Other ˜yÐÄvlogs From

  • ²Ô³Ü·³Ù°ù¾±Â·³¾±ð²Ô·³Ù²¹±ô [noo-tr, uh, -, men, -tl, nyoo-], adjective
  • ²Ô´Ç²Ô·²Ô³Üt°ù¾±Â·³¾±ð²Ô³Ù noun
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˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins

Origin of nutriment1

1375–1425; late Middle English < Latin ²ÔÅ«³Ù°ùÄ«³¾±ð²Ô³Ù³Ü³¾ nourishment, equivalent to ²ÔÅ«³Ù°ùÄ« ( re ) to nourish, feed + -mentum -ment
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˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins

Origin of nutriment1

C16: from Latin ²ÔÅ«³Ù°ùÄ«³¾±ð²Ô³Ù³Ü³¾, from ²ÔÅ«³Ù°ùÄ«re to nourish
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Example Sentences

I would fain at the moment have become bee or lizard, that I might have found fitting nutriment, permanent shelter here.

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And what nutriment could be more equipped to help carry out this task than the versatile oat, the reliable and hardworking utility player of the human defence system?

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In his 1894 essay The Extinction of Man, Wells pondered a "new and larger variety" that might "acquire a preferential taste for human nutriment".

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His prayer was but the seasonable flower of his life, nourished to all its beauty by the habitual nutriment of past years.

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But with the ordinary student who cannot receive or retain his mental nutriment except by a carefully studied mode of presentation, he was not so successful.

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