Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. The act of nourishing.
- n. The state of being nourished.
- n. Something that nourishes; food.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. The act of nourishing, or the state of being nourished; nutrition.
- n. That which, taken into the system, serves to nourish; food; sustenance; nutriment.
- n. Figuratively, that which promotes growth or development of any kind.
- n. A fluid applied to glazed leather to make it pliable and prevent it from hardening.
Wiktionary
- n. the act of nourishing or the state of being nourished
- n. something that nourishes; food
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. The act of nourishing, or the state of being nourished; nutrition.
- n. That which serves to nourish; nutriment; food.
WordNet 3.0
- n. the act of nourishing
- n. a source of materials to nourish the body
Examples
“The term nourishment manifestly includes quite a number of separate factors, as light, space, temperature, moisture, the physical and chemical conditions of the soil and the changes of the weather.”
“When we inhale, we are taking information and nourishment from the universe.”
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“The grievances of the young and the poor, given a little nourishment from the venerable party that had liberated South Africa, grew quickly in volume.”
“But for some children, getting adequate nourishment is far from simple.”
“Each may share equally in nourishment, sun, air, water, as long as they “keep their distance.””
“It's like right wingers gain nourishment from hate, bigotry, and intolerance.”
“William of Conches describes the "long work" attempted by each fetus in the seventh month, based on the idea that the fetus was extremely active then and would have to rest for another month if its attempt to exit the womb failed. 86 By the seventh month, the fetus was no longer simply the passive recipient of nourishment from the mother's body but actively sought to separate itself from her.”
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“The little infant was "nourished and fed in utero by menstrual blood," from which "lowly and weak material man receives nourishment from the beginning.”
A Tender Age: Cultural Anxieties over the Child in the Twelfth and Thirteenth Centuries
“Its primary source of nourishment is a response to its excrement, which is left in the form of a comment on any weblog which allows comments.”
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“Finally, the chalice is designed to contain nourishment for mortals, and it is used by mortals to celebrate one another's company, and to worship the gods.”
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fifi
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indulge, convene, solve, dissolve, prospect, prospective, allege, resolve, accountable, administration, amid, agenda and 407 more...
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abash, abate, abbreviate, abdicate, aberrant, aberration, abet, abeyance, abhor, abide, abject, abjure and 4874 more...
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Food!
grub, eats, prog, fare, cates, viands, victuals, fodder, edibles, ingesta, aliment, rations and 9 more...
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