diet

Speech parts

1. diet - Noun

2. diet - Adjective

3. diet - Verb

4. Diet - Proper noun

Meaning

Course of living or nourishment; what is eaten and drunk habitually; food; victuals; fare.

A course of food selected with reference to a particular state of health; prescribed allowance of food; regimen prescribed.

To cause to take food; to feed.

To cause to eat and drink sparingly, or by prescribed rules; to regulate medicinally the food of.

To eat; to take one's meals.

To eat according to prescribed rules; to ear sparingly; as, the doctor says he must diet.

A legislative or administrative assembly in Germany, Poland, and some other countries of Europe; a deliberative convention; a council; as, the Diet of Worms, held in 1521.

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

regimen dieting council parliament congress senate codex dieter lite duma pap dietetic assembly chamber general assembly
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Antonyms

hoover gorge cram sate eat drink
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Hypernyms

general assembly legislature FAST fare fasting legislative body

Hyponyms

pap vegetarianism balanced diet carbohydrate loading dietary supplement soft diet

Phrases with the word

Stone Age diet keto diet Mediterranean diet Stillman diet be on a diet poor diet

Derivatives

dieted dieting

Anagrams

dite edit tide tied tedi

Examples

Food is an important part of a balanced diet. Fran Lebowitz

A friend doesn't go on a diet because you are fat. Erma Bombeck

No disease that can be treated by diet should be treated with any other means. Maimonides

Those who take medicine and neglect their diet waste the skill of the physician. Chinese Proverb

He that lives on hope has but a slender diet. Danish Proverb

Diet cures mair than doctors. Scottish Proverb

Close letter words and terms

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