nutrition

Other forms of nutrition

plural

nutritions·

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 nutrition

What does nutrition mean?

nutrition means "(physiology) the organic process of nourishing or being nourished; the processes by which an organism assimilates food and uses it for growth and maintenance". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in nutrition?

nutrition has 3 syllables: nu-trit-ion. The stress falls on "trit". In IPA it is /nuˈtɹɪʃən/.

What is another word for nutrition?

Close synonyms include nutriment, nourishment, sustenance, aliment, 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 nutrition a common word?

nutrition is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with nutrition?

8 words rhyme with nutrition. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.