Noun: aliment
| Singular | aliment |
| Plural | aliments |
Sample Sentences
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In the living state, the body is observed to receive aliment; [...] [1822, John Barclay, chapter I, in An Inquiry Into the Opinions, Ancient and Modern, Concerning Life and Organization, Edinburgh; London: Bell & Bradfute; Waugh & Innes; G. & W. B. Whittaker, section I, page 1:]
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As when Demosthenes reprehended the people for hearkening to the conditions offered by King Philip, being not honourable nor equal, he saith they were but aliments of their sloth and weakness, which if they were taken away, necessity would teach them stronger resolutions. [1597, Francis Bacon, “Of the Coulers of Good and Evill. A Fragment.”, in James Spedding, Robert Leslie Ellis, and Douglas Denon Heath, editors, The Works of Francis Bacon, […], volume VII, London: Longman, Green, and Co.; […], published 1859, →OCLC, pages 90–91:]
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All this monotony might be a good aliment for a poet but what if one had no gifts? [1978, Lawrence Durrell, Livia (Avignon Quintet), Faber & Faber, published 1992, page 356:]
Nouns inflected like aliment
soldier's woundwort,
Nicosian,
whopper,
greypate,
tactile sign language,
chronotrope,
Rosie Lee,
dissentient,
photoinactivator,
sulphonediimine,
coastal waterfall,
residuary devise,
bituminization,
nitrosonaphthol,
smṛiti,
geosphere,
backscreen,
mensuralist,
flocculate,
flocculant, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
From French aliment, from Latin alimentum (“food”). See: French Nouns '
aliment', Latin Nouns '
alimentum'.
Verbs referencing "aliment"
English Nouns
alimony, Spanish Nouns
alimento.