diet

Meaning

Noun

1. The food and beverage a person or animal consumes.
2. A controlled regimen of food and drink, as to gain or lose weight or otherwise influence health.
3. Any habitual intake or consumption.

Adj

1. Containing less fat, salt, sugar, or calories than normal, or claimed to have such.
2. (informal) Having certain traits subtracted.

Verb

1. To regulate the food of (someone); to put on a diet.
2. To modify one's food and beverage intake so as to decrease or increase body weight or influence health.
3. (obsolete) To eat; to take one's meals.
4. (obsolete) To cause to take food; to feed.

Synonyms

food

🍽️

fare

nourishment

nutrition

food and drink

sustenance

fast

starve

parliament

meal

dieting

pabulum

nutriment

lose weight

regimen

menu

abstain

continence

aliment

provisions

ration

reduce

abstinence

congress

temperance

tighten

underfeed

undernourished

viand

bant

Congress

go without food

House of Representatives

low calorie

national assembly

States General

reduced calorie

no calorie

non-caloric

ingesta

foodstuff

go on a hunger strike

dietary history assessment

nutritional assessment of diet

obesity diet

reducing diet

state house

be on a diet

board

chow

convention

cooking

cuisine

dietary

dining

fat-free

feed

grub

house

🏠

intake

legislature

lite

low-fat

lunch

midday meal

provender

regime

senate

slim

sustentation

table

Pronounced as (IPA)

/ˈdaɪət/

Etymology

From Middle English diet, dyet, diete, from Old French diete, from Medieval Latin dieta (“regimen, regulation; assembly”), from Latin diaeta, from Ancient Greek δίαιτα (díaita).

Sentences

Its diet consists of large insects , spiders , and small vertebrates .