appetite – English noun declension

English noun forms of appetite

Noun: appetite
Singularappetite
Pluralappetites

Sample Sentences

  • And I return with an excellent appetite. There can be no question, my dear Watson, of the value of exercise before breakfast. [1904, Arthur Conan Doyle, The Adventure of Black Peter:]
  • The most rapid and most seductive transition in all human nature is that which attends the palliation of a ravenous appetite. There is something humiliating about it. [1921, Ben Travers, chapter 5, in A Cuckoo in the Nest, Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, Page & Company, published 1925, →OCLC:]
  • Though the breweries were forced to shut down, the dry spell did little more than whet the public's appetite for beer: Records show that within the first 24 hours after Congress lifted the ban Prohibition] in 1933, Americans guzzled 1 million barrels of the stuff. [1985, Susan Mullane, “Going for some gusto in the kitchen”, in National Fisherman, page 78:]
  • Biotics possess extraordinary abilities, but they must live with minor inconveniences. The most obvious issue is getting adequate nutrition. Creating biotic mass effects takes such a toll on metabolism that active biotics develop ravenous appetites. The standard Alliance combat ration for a soldier is 3000 calories per day; biotics are given 4500, as well as a canteen of potent energy drink for quick refreshment after hard combat. [2008, BioWare, Mass Effect (Science Fiction), Redwood City: Electronic Arts, →ISBN, →OCLC, PC, scene: Biotics: Life as a Biotic Codex entry:]
  • If God had given to eagles an appetite to swim. [1678, Antiquitates Christianæ: Or, the History of the Life and Death of the Holy Jesus: […], London: […] E. Flesher, and R. Norton, for R[ichard] Royston, […], →OCLC:]
  • To gratify the vulgar appetite for the marvellous. [1849–1861, Thomas Babington Macaulay, chapter IX, in The History of England from the Accession of James the Second, volume (please specify |volume=I to V), London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, →OCLC:]
  • Conway says there had long been an outline plan to build a new station in Belfast, to replace Great Victoria Street station, but also to bring the Europa bus station into that to create a fully integrated transport hub. The team soon realised that there was a real appetite for this among the public of Northern Ireland, as well as a desire to include active travel, such as more cycle parking and better pedestrian access. [2026 March 18, Chris Conway talks to Andy Comfort, “The RAIL Interview”, in RAIL, number 1057, page 33:]
  • appetite for reading
  • The object of appetite is whatsoever sensible good may be wished for; the object of will is that good which reason does lead us to seek. [[1594], Richard Hooker, edited by J[ohn] S[penser], Of the Lawes of Ecclesiastical Politie, […], London: […] Iohn Windet, […], →OCLC, (please specify the page):]

Etymology

From Middle English appetit, from Old French apetit (French appétit), from Latin appetitus, from appetere (“to strive after, long for”); ad + petere (“to seek”). See petition, and compare with appetence. See: Middle English Nouns 'appetit', French Nouns 'appétit', Latin Nouns 'appetitus'.