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aliment

2 ENTRIES FOUND:
  1. 1) aliment (noun)
  2. 2) aliment (verb)

1al·i·ment

noun \ˈa-lə-mənt\

Definition of ALIMENT

: food, nutriment; also : sustenance <there was nothing there of conversational aliment — Kingsley Amis>
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Examples of ALIMENT

  1. <complained that he had to drive for hours to find any sort of cultural aliment when visiting his parents' rural home>

Origin of ALIMENT

Middle English, from Latin alimentum, from alere to nourish — more at old
First Known Use: 15th century

Related to ALIMENT

Synonyms: sustenance, food, nourishment, pabulum
Related Words: refection
Near Antonyms: candy, fluff, pablum, pap, trash
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