aliment

1. 1.

   give nourishment to

   Synonymsnutrifynourish

   Broaderfeed

Other forms of aliment

plural

aliments·

past tense

alimented·

present participle

alimenting·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about aliment

What does aliment mean?

aliment means "a source of materials to nourish the body". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in aliment?

aliment has 3 syllables: a-li-ment. The stress falls on "a".

What is another word for aliment?

Close synonyms include nutriment, nourishment, nutrition, sustenance, alimentation. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is aliment a common word?

aliment is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.