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diate

diate is the obsolete spelling of diet.

Meaning of diet

Noun (1)

diet (plural diets)

  1. The food and beverage a person or animal consumes.
    • The diet of the giant panda consists mainly of bamboo.
  2. (countable) A controlled regimen of food and drink choices, as to gain or lose weight or otherwise influence health.
    • He's been on a diet since he found out that he has coronary atherosclerosis.
  3. (broadly) Any habitual intake or consumption.
    • He's been reading a steady diet of nonfiction for the last several years.

Noun (2)

diet (plural diets)

  1. (capitalized, usually) A council or assembly of leaders; a formal deliberative assembly.
    • the National Diet of Japan
  2. (Scotland) A session of exams.
    • Normally the diet begins towards the end of April.2020 June 14, “Coronavirus: School exam timetable could be put back next year”, in BBC News website, BBC, retrieved 23 Apr 2026
  3. (Scots law) A criminal proceeding in court.

See all 13 meanings of diet

Forms of diate

pluraldiates

Questions about diate

What is diate the obsolete spelling of?
Diate is the obsolete spelling of diet.

Words near diate in the dictionary

  1. diasyrm
  2. diasystem
  3. diasystematic
  4. diasystemic
  5. diasystems
  6. diate
  7. diatechnical
  8. diatessara
  9. diatessaron
  10. diatessarons
  11. diatexite

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Adapted from Wiktionary: diate (page history and authors); diet (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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