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Definitions: Aliment |
AlimentNoun1. A source of materials to nourish the body. Verb1. Give nourishment to. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "aliment" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1321. (references) |
Synonyms: AlimentSynonyms: alimentation (n), nourishment (n), nutriment (n), nutrition (n), sustenance (n), victuals (n), nourish (v), nutrify (v). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Food | Food, pabulum; aliment, nourishment, nutriment; sustenance, sustentation, sustention; nurture, subsistence, provender, corn, feed, fodder, provision, ration, keep, commons, board; commissariat; (provision); prey, forage, pasture, pasturage; fare, cheer; diet, dietary; regimen; belly timber, staff of life; bread, bread and cheese. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Aliment |
| English words defined with "aliment": alimentative ♦ Broma ♦ Food yolk ♦ Inalimental ♦ -ment. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "aliment": Inalimental. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "Aliment" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses. Catalan (food, nourishment), French (aliment, food, meat, nourishment), Occitan (food), Romanian (aliment, food, food stuff, nourishment). |
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| Title | Author | Quote |
Walden | Thoreau, Henry David | We spend more on almost any article of bodily aliment or ailment than on our mental ailment. |
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Thomas Jefferson | 1801-1809 | The commerce with the Indians, too, within our own boundaries is likely to receive abundant aliment from the same internal source, and will secure to them peace and the progress of civilization, undisturbed by practices hostile to both. |
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| "Aliment" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Aliment" is used about 4 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 100% | 4 | 175,879 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following table summarizes the usage of "aliment" based on a population census conducted in the United States. Ranks and frequencies are based on all names reported and classified. |
| Name | Usage/Gender | Usage per 100 million Persons | Rank in USA |
| Aliment | Last name | 170 | 48,482 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits. | |||
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Language | Translations for "aliment"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | ushqim (alimentation, alimony, allowance, chow, chuck, comestible, cuisine, diet, dish, eatables, eating, fare, feed, feeding, food, foodstuff, grub, input, meat, nourishment, nurture, nutriment, nutrition, pabulum, pot luck, provender, repast, supply, sustenance, table, tack, Tommy), përkrahje (abetment, advocacy, backing, backup, boost, buttress, championship, espousal, Favor, favour, furtherance, intercession, paternalism, patronage, promotion, prop, protection, push, support), mbështetje (adhesion, aegis, alimentation, alimony, backup, foundation, furtherance, pillar, promotion, purchase, recourse, stock, support, sustenance, sustention, tower). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | نفقة (cost, expenditure, expense, outlay, pension), قوت (bread, food, nourishment, nutriment, subsistence, sustenance, victual), غذاء (diet, feed, food, meat, nourishment, nutriment, nutrition), طعام (chuck, common, eatables, eating, fare, feed, food, kosher, meat, nourishment, provender, ration). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | храня (bait, cherish, do, entertain, feed, indulge, maintain, nourish, nurse), храна (board, boarding, chow, chuck, diet, dietary, eating, edibles, fare, feed, fodder, food, fuel, meal, meat, nourishment, nurture, nutriment, nutrition, pabulum, provender, rations, scran, sustenance, tack, viands, victuals), подхранвам (fatten up, feed, fodder, supply). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | výživa (diet, nourishment, nutrition, pabulum, sustenance), potrava (food, nourishment, nurture, nutriment, sustenance). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | aliment. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | Nahrungsmittel (comestible, food, foodstuff, nourishment, nourishments, nutriment). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | τροφή (diet, fare, feed, food, grub, nourishment, nutriment, nutrition, pabulum, sustenance, viand). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | táplálék (feed, food, jock, nourishment, nutriment, nutrition, pabulum). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | alimento (food, nourishment, nutriment). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | alimentay alimento (alimony, bread, combustible, diet, eating, feed, food, fuel, keeping, nosh, nourishment, nutrition, pabulum, Peck, pension, provender, sustenance, victual), alimentar (alimentary, diet, dietary, fare, feed, food ( adj. ), food fibers, forager, Foster, nourish, nurture, nuts), pensão alimentar, dar pensão alimentar. (various references) aliment (food, food stuff, nourishment). (various references) питание (alimentation, aliments, alimony, board, feed, feeding, food, nourishment, nuitrition, nurture, nutriment, nutrition, supply, sustenance). (various references) podrška (backing, backup, boost, support, sustenance), izdržavanje (alimentation, alimony, keep, livelihood, maintenance, support, sustenance, sustention), hrana (chow, cuisine, eatables, fare, food, nourishment, nurture, nutriment, pabulum, prog, provender, tommy, trencher, viands, victual, victuals). (various references) alimento (food, nourishment, nutriment), alimentar (feed, nourish, nurture). (various references) yiyecek (chow, comestibles, eatables, fare, food, forage, grub, keep, nurture, prog, provender, scran, tack, tuck, victual), gıda (diet, fare, food, nourishment, nutrient, nutriment, nutrition, pabulum, sustenance), besin (food, nourishment, nutrient, nutriment, nutrition, nutritional, pabulum, sustenance, sustentation, tack). (various references) утримувати (cater, deduct, detain, deter, hold, interdict, keep, maintain, retain, subsist), утримання (abstention, abstinence, alimentation, alimony, allowance, deduction, maintenance, sustentation, upkeep), їжа (bait, board, chow, chuck, eating, fare, feed, feeding, fodder, food, meat, nosh, nourishment, nurture, nutriment, nutrition, nutritive, pabulum, potluck, thing, Tommy, viand, victual), харчування (alimentation, alimony, feed, feeding, food, living, meal, nourishment, nurture, nutriment, nutrition, sustenance, sustentation), харчі (comestible, provisions), підтримувати (back, back up, bear up, block, bolster, carry, cheer, corroborate, encourage, favour, fortify, get behind, hold up, keep alive, maintain, play up, prop, pull, push, second, sponsor, stand for, support, sustain, underpin, underset, upbear, uphold), підтримка (aegis, alimentation, backing, boost, cheer, crutch, egis, espousal, favour, pick me up, prop, sanction, smiles, sponsorship, support, sustention, vindication), платити аліменти. (various references) sự giúp đỡ về vật chất v tinh thần, đ" ăn sự cấp dưỡng. (various references) ymborth (board, food, sustenance), maeth (nourishment, nutriment). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "aliment": alimentary, alimentation, alimentations, alimented, alimenting, aliments. (additional references) | |
Words containing "aliment": hyperalimentation, hyperalimentations. (additional references) | |
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"Aliment" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: adiment, aient, aimant, alaman, alamin, Alcmene, alerent, alient, aligent, aligment, alimen, alimenta, Allemann, Allemant, allement, almen, amilent, ilament, Kliment, laiment, ralliement, Salimbeni. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: ailment. | |
| Words within the letters "a-e-i-l-m-n-t" | |
-1 letter: entail, etamin, inmate, lament, maline, mantel, mantle, menial, mental, tamein, tenail, tineal. | |
-2 letters: alien, aline, ament, amine, anile, anime, elain, elint, email, entia, inlet, laten, leant, leman, liane, liman, limen, maile, matin, meant, menta, metal, minae, telia, tenia, tinea. | |
-3 letters: alit, alme, amen, amie, amin, anil, ante, anti, elan, emit, etna, ilea, item. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-e-i-l-m-n-t" | |
+1 letter: ailments, aliments, antimale, bailment, filament, laminate, ligament, manliest, melanist, melanite, metaling, smaltine, tegminal, terminal, tramline. | |
+2 letters: alignment, alimented, alinement, almandite, aluminate, animately, bailments, culminate, demential, dentalium, dismantle, eliminate, emotional, emulating, emulation, enamelist, filaments, fulminate, glutamine, implanted, implanter, intermale, lamenting, laminated, laminates, ligaments, lineament, melanists, melanites, melanitic, melanotic, melatonin, mentalism, mentalist, mentality, metalling, militance, mislearnt, multilane, penultima, reimplant, semitonal, smaltines, terminals, tillerman, trameling, tramlines. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)41 6C 69 6D 65 6E 74 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references).- .-.. .. -- . -. - |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000001 01101100 01101001 01101101 01100101 01101110 01110100 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)A l i m e n t |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0041 006C 0069 006D 0065 006E 0074 |
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)35787579718086 |
| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Crosswords 4. Usage: Commercial | 5. Quotations: Fiction 6. Quotations: Speeches 7. Usage Frequency 8. Names: Frequency | 9. Expressions: Internet 10. Translations: Modern 11. Derivations 12. Anagrams | 13. Orthography 14. Bibliography |
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