diet

Noun

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

Adj

1. (not-comparable) Containing less fat, salt, sugar, or calories than normal, or claimed to have such.
2. (figuratively, informal, not-comparable) Having certain traits subtracted.

Verb

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

Pronounced as (IPA)

/ˈdaɪət/

Etymology

Inherited from Middle English: diet

Inherited from Middle English: dieten

In summary

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).

Synonyms

food

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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

Translations

dieta

dieta

dieta

Diät

dieta

dieet

diète

régime

perhiz

δίαιτα

dieta

régime alimentaire

Diète

régimen

rejim

Sentences

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