• Aliment

    Pronunciation

    • UK IPA: /ˈalɪmÉ™nt/

    Origin

    From French aliment, and its source, Latin alimentum ("food").

    Full definition of aliment

    Noun

    aliment

    (plural aliments)
    1. (now rare) Food.
    2. (figuratively) Nourishment, sustenance.
      • Francis Baconaliments of their sloth and weakness
      • 1978, Lawrence Durrell, Livia, Faber & Faber 1992 (Avignon Quintet), p. 356:All this monotony might be a good aliment for a poet but what if one had no gifts?
    3. (Scotland) An allowance for maintenance.

    Verb

    1. (obsolete) To feed, nourish.
    2. To sustain, support.
      • 2002, Colin Jones, The Great Nation, Penguin 2003, p. 434: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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