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nourishment

 
Dictionary: nour·ish·ment   (nûr'ĭsh-mənt, nŭr'-) pronunciation
 
n.
    1. The act of nourishing.
    2. The state of being nourished.
  1. Something that nourishes; food.

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Thesaurus: nourishment
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noun

  1. Something fit to be eaten: aliment, bread, comestible, diet, edible, esculent, fare, food, foodstuff, meat, nurture, nutriment, nutrition, pabulum, pap, provender, provision (used in plural), sustenance, victual. Slang chow, eats, grub. See ingestion.
  2. That which sustains the mind or spirit: aliment, bread, food, nutriment, pabulum, pap, sustenance. See care for/neglect, ingestion.

 
Antonyms: nourishment
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n

Definition: food
Antonyms: deprivation, starvation


 
Translations: Nourishment
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Dansk (Danish)
n. - næring

Nederlands (Dutch)
voeding, het voeden/ gevoed worden, voedsel (ook figuurlijk)

Français (French)
n. - aliment nourrissant, nourriture, (fig) nourritures (intellectuelles)

Deutsch (German)
n. - Ernährung, Nahrung

Ελληνική (Greek)
n. - θρέψη, τροφή, διατροφή

Italiano (Italian)
nutrizione, alimento

Português (Portuguese)
n. - nutrição (f), alimento (m)

Русский (Russian)
питание

Español (Spanish)
n. - alimentación, nutrición, comida

Svenska (Swedish)
n. - näring, föda, främjande

中文(简体)(Chinese (Simplified))
滋养品, 营养, 养料

中文(繁體)(Chinese (Traditional))
n. - 滋養品, 營養, 養料

한국어 (Korean)
n. - 자양물, 육성

日本語 (Japanese)
n. - 滋養物, 食物, 滋養を与えること, 育成, 助長, 栄養状態

العربيه (Arabic)
‏(الاسم) تغذيه, غذاء‏

עברית (Hebrew)
n. - ‮מזון, תזונה‬


 
 
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