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aliment

/ˈæ.lɪ.mənt/

aliment noun: food.

Noun

aliment (countable and uncountable, plural aliments)

  1. (archaic) Food.
    • 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...
  2. (figuratively) Nourishment, sustenance.
    • 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...
    • 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
  3. (Scotland) An allowance for maintenance; alimony.

Verb

aliment (third-person singular simple present aliments, present participle alimenting, simple past and past participle alimented)

  1. (obsolete) To feed, nourish.
  2. To sustain, support.
    • Yet there would also be many – and not simply the powerful and ultra-privileged – who lost out, and whose discontent operated as a kind of political yeast, alimenting ‘unpatriotic’ thoughts and acts.2002, Colin Jones, The Great Nation, Penguin, published 2003, page 434

aliment meaning in Tamil, Urdu, Bengali and Kannada

aliment in Tamil

உணவு, ஊட்ட உணவு, ஊட்டம், வாழ்வதற்கு வேண்டிய ஆதரவு, உணவளி, ஊட்டு

aliment in Urdu

غذا, غذائیت

aliment in Bengali

পুষ্টিকর খাদ্য, পোষক পদার্থ

aliment in Kannada

ತಿನಿಸು, ಆರಯ್ಕೆ

Forms of aliment

Noun
pluralaliments
Verb
third-person singular presentaliments
present participlealimenting
past participlealimented
pastalimented

Origin of aliment

From French aliment, from Latin alimentum (“food”).

Words formed from aliment

Questions about aliment

What does aliment mean?
Aliment means food.
What is aliment in Tamil?
Aliment in Tamil is உணவு, ஊட்ட உணவு, ஊட்டம். See Aliment meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is aliment?
Aliment can be a noun or a verb.
How do you pronounce aliment?
Aliment is pronounced /ˈæ.lɪ.mənt/ (UK).
What is the plural of aliment?
The plural of aliment is aliments.

Words near aliment in the dictionary

  1. alim
  2. alimadol
  3. Aliman
  4. Alimathaa
  5. alimemazine
  6. aliment
  7. alimental
  8. alimentally
  9. alimentarily
  10. alimentariness
  11. alimentary

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: aliment (page history and authors); aliment (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); aliment (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); aliment (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors); aliment (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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