NUTRIMENT

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does nutriment mean? 

• NUTRIMENT (noun)
  The noun NUTRIMENT has 1 sense:

1. a source of materials to nourish the body

  Familiarity information: NUTRIMENT used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• NUTRIMENT (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A source of materials to nourish the body

Classified under:

Nouns denoting foods and drinks

Synonyms:

aliment; alimentation; nourishment; nutriment; nutrition; sustenance; victuals

Hypernyms ("nutriment" is a kind of...):

food; nutrient (any substance that can be metabolized by an animal to give energy and build tissue)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "nutriment"):

milk (produced by mammary glands of female mammals for feeding their young)

course (part of a meal served at one time)

dainty; delicacy; goody; kickshaw; treat (something considered choice to eat)

dish (a particular item of prepared food)

fast food (inexpensive food (hamburgers or chicken or milkshakes) prepared and served quickly)

finger food (food to be eaten with the fingers)

ingesta (solid and liquid nourishment taken into the body through the mouth)

kosher (food that fulfills the requirements of Jewish dietary law)

meal; repast (the food served and eaten at one time)

mess (soft semiliquid food)

mince (food chopped into small bits)

puree (food prepared by cooking and straining or processed in a blender)

stodge (heavy and filling (and usually starchy) food)

wheat germ (embryo of the wheat kernel; removed before milling and eaten as a source of vitamins)

vitamin (any of a group of organic substances essential in small quantities to normal metabolism)

 Context examples 

A mean nutriment for the spirit to exist on: and sitting in that window- seat (you see I know your habits )—You have learned them from the servants.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

He could eat anything, no matter how loathsome or indigestible; and, once eaten, the juices of his stomach extracted the last least particle of nutriment; and his blood carried it to the farthest reaches of his body, building it into the toughest and stoutest of tissues.

(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)

For if, in its perihelion, it should approach within a certain degree of the sun (as by their calculations they have reason to dread) it will receive a degree of heat ten thousand times more intense than that of red hot glowing iron, and in its absence from the sun, carry a blazing tail ten hundred thousand and fourteen miles long, through which, if the earth should pass at the distance of one hundred thousand miles from the nucleus, or main body of the comet, it must in its passage be set on fire, and reduced to ashes: that the sun, daily spending its rays without any nutriment to supply them, will at last be wholly consumed and annihilated; which must be attended with the destruction of this earth, and of all the planets that receive their light from it.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)

I would fain at the moment have become bee or lizard, that I might have found fitting nutriment, permanent shelter here.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)