nourishment
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2.0
- noun
- /ˈnʌrɪʃmənt/
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nutrición
- This nutritious soup serves as a great source of nourishment for those recovering from illness.
- give nourishment
- provide nourishment
- nourishment for the body
I mean, just ripping palms apart, trying to get a little piece of nourishment, starving to death.
- I mean, just ripping palms apart, trying to get a little piece of nourishment, starving to death.
- And I need those or, or I crave those or I receive nourishment from that kind of communion.
- OK, so it doesn't eat potatoes for its nourishment.
- And absolutely there's a mutual exchange of nourishment going on.
- But what you got out of them was real spiritual kind of nourishment.
- Another was to focus on food and aging and social nourishment.
- It's like a living, breathing entity that needs nourishment.
- So I have spent my life dining upon flora and fauna to bring nourishment to my body.
- Your family, your job, your community, your spiritual nourishment.
- Because their bodies keep trying to get the necessary nourishment.
- You know, prior to that you would get given like nourishment drinks and let's make them fat, high sugar stuff.
- And, you know, it's wild is the stuff works, Glandulars work, nose to tail nourishment works.
- He says the spirit proper of state power consists in obtaining actuality and nourishment from the sacrifice and action and thought.
Examples
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Treat food as nourishment, not entertainment.
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Mother Earth is still the same, for she continues to provide nourishment for all living things, large and small.
Fiction book (1998) -
May you watch over this food we are about to receive for the nourishment of our bodies.
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Is someone able to provide reasonable care and nourishment for the boy until that time?
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Art, in short, was thought to be the source of spiritual value and nourishment for the soul.
Academic text (1995) -
May the nourishment of the earth be yours, may the clarity of light be yours.
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The fish will provide much needed nourishment for her growing chicks.
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Food and housing might have been a problem, but Aurora had said that nourishment was covered.
Fiction book (2002) -
We've prepared this meal for nourishment, for Angel's mother, for her journey home.
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The mixture of berries and fat would provide nourishment for his skinny frame.
Fiction book (1990)
Synonyms
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1.0
Something people and animals eat or drink to live and grow
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1.0
Eating or giving food to people, animals, and plants
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2.3
How a person gets and uses food to stay healthy and grow
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5.7
Food and drink that keep you alive and healthy
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3.6
Providing food and other needs so a person or family can live
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7.2
To provide food, water, and help so people can live
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8.0
Food that gives people or animals what they need to live
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8.3
Something that gives living things food and energy
Food and drink kept or prepared to eat
The act of giving food and drink to a person or animal
Help that keeps people alive by giving food or money
Antonyms
Compounds
How Nourishing
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Nourishment comes from the old Latin word nutrire, which means 'to feed' or 'to raise', and you can see the same root in nutrition and nutrient. So nourishment is the food or feeding that helps the body grow and stay healthy.