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Aliment

Definitions: Aliment

Aliment

Noun

1. A source of materials to nourish the body.

Verb

1. 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: Aliment

Synonyms: alimentation (n), nourishment (n), nutriment (n), nutrition (n), sustenance (n), victuals (n), nourish (v), nutrify (v). (additional references)

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Synonyms within Context: Aliment

ContextSynonyms 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.

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Crosswords: Aliment

English words defined with "aliment": alimentativeBromaFood yolkInalimental-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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Commercial Usage: Aliment

DomainTitle

Books

  • A la Mesa - Ritos y Retos de La Aliment. Argentina (reference)

  • La bière : un aliment, un remède (reference)

  • Le Miso plus qu'un aliment... la vie (reference)

  • Tecnicas de Laboratorios Para Analisis de Aliment (reference)

    (more book examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Use in Literature: Aliment

TitleAuthorQuote

Walden

Thoreau, Henry David

We spend more on almost any article of bodily aliment or ailment than on our mental ailment.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Speeches: Aliment

SpeakerTermPhrase(s)

Thomas Jefferson

1801-1809The 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.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Usage Frequency: Aliment

"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 SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Noun (singular)100%4175,879

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Name Usage Frequency: Aliment

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.
NameUsage/GenderUsage per 100
million Persons
Rank in USA
AlimentLast name17048,482
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Aliment

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.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day
  ExpressionFrequency
per Day

  aliment

48

  aliment des en fer liste nutrition

2

  aliment antibiotique sans

35

  aliment pharmacol ther

2

  aliment des irradiation

11

  aliment magasin naturel

2

  aliment les m m

8

  aliment dog

2

  aliment m m

8

  aliment en fer riches

2

  aliment calorie

6

  aliment breton

2

  aliment ultima

6

  aliment calorie des

2

  agence aliment canadienne d des inspection

4

  aliment conditionnement d

2

  aliment biodisponibilité et santé

4

  aliment des science

2

  acides aliment

4

  aliment les lesters

2

  aliment carriere

3

  aliment naturels

2

  aliment conservation des

3

  aliment chat pour

2

  aliment animaux pour

3

  aliment biologiques

2

  aliment en fer riche

3

  aliment potassium

2

  aliment oiseaux

3

  aliment foot

2

  aliment calorique des valeur

3
  

aliment foot

2
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translations: Aliment

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

   

Portuguese

  

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)

   

Romanian

  

aliment (food, food stuff, nourishment). (various references)

   

Russian 

  

питание (alimentation, aliments, alimony, board, feed, feeding, food, nourishment, nuitrition, nurture, nutriment, nutrition, supply, sustenance). (various references)

   

Serbo-Croatian

  

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)

   

Spanish

  

alimento (food, nourishment, nutriment), alimentar (feed, nourish, nurture). (various references)

   

Turkish

  

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)

   

Ukranian 

  

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)

   

Vietnamese 

  

sự giúp đỡ về vật chất v tinh thần, đ" ăn sự cấp dưỡng. (various references)

   

Welsh

  

ymborth (board, food, sustenance), maeth (nourishment, nutriment). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Derivations & Misspellings: Aliment

Derivations

Words beginning with "aliment": alimentary, alimentation, alimentations, alimented, alimenting, aliments. (additional references)

Words containing "aliment": hyperalimentation, hyperalimentations. (additional references)


Misspellings

"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).

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Anagrams: Aliment

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.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: Aliment


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

41 6C 69 6D 65 6E 74

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

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Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01000001 01101100 01101001 01101101 01100101 01101110 01110100

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#65 &#108 &#105 &#109 &#101 &#110 &#116

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0041 006C 0069 006D 0065 006E 0074

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

35787579718086

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INDEX

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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