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nourishment Definition

nour·ish·ment (nʉris̸h mənt)

noun

  1. a nourishing or being nourished
  2. something that nourishes; food; nutriment

Etymology: ME norysshement < OFr norissement

nourishment Synonyms

nourishment

n.

nurture, nutriment, provender; see food.

nourishment Usage Examples

Converse of object

  • derive: Just like a leech derives nourishment from its host's blood, the embryo derives nourishment from the decidua or the pregnant endometrium.
  • receive: And the simple vein will receive nourishment from itself, and the nerve and artery from the vein.
  • draw: However complex the tree, the root, tho hidden, is the only place from where the whole tree can draw nourishment.
  • provide: Sunday Post Quiz Answers, June 8, 2003 1 To provide nourishment for the bird or animal embryo.
  • obtain: Modifying your diet can help you obtain more nourishment from food.
  • bring: Attend to the basis of life the Unified Field to bring nourishment to all the various aspects of life.

Adjective modifier

  • spiritual: For spiritual nourishment there were halls of worship filled with statues of the Buddha.
  • optimum: And optimum nourishment is essential for your good health.
  • proper: Cancer patients must be diligent about getting the proper nourishment.
  • sufficient: The language of the state with its many strong roots does not leave sufficient nourishment for the tender sapling, our hapless language " .
  • enough: He has passed out several times while at work, unable to get enough nourishment and rest during a 30-minute break at midday.
  • little: All these species give but little nourishment for farm animals.

Modifies a noun

  • scheme: The beach nourishment scheme is directed at the remaining stretch of exposed dunes.

Noun used with modifier

  • beach: There is an expected increase in demand for beach nourishment material.
  • skin: Welcome to a new era of instant skin nourishment.

Preposition: of

  • life: Ship life is not much of a place for the nourishment of spiritual life.
  • soul: John Lane believes that beauty is the nourishment of the soul.

Preposition: for

  • body: They used it as emotional and physical nourishment for the body.
  • soul: We find nourishment for the soul in nature; in trees and mountains and rivers.
nourishment Quotes

But knowledge is as food, and needs no less Her temperance over appetite, to know In measure what the mind may well contain, Oppresses else with surfeit, and soon turns Wisdom to folly, as nourishment to wind.

—Milton,John

First, sturdy March with brows full sternly bent, And arme'  d strongly, rode upon a ram, The same which over Hellespontus swam: Yet in his hand a spade he also hent, And in a bag all sorts of seeds ysame, Which on the earth he strowe'  d as he went, And filled her womb with fruitful hope of nourishment.

—Spenser, Edmund

It is the nature of an hypothesis, when once a man has conceived it, that it assimilates everything to itself, as proper nourishment; and, from the first moment of your begetting it, it generally grows the stronger by every thing you see, hear, read, or understand.

—Sterne, Laurence

The capital is become an overgrown monster; which, like a dropsical head, will in time leave the body and extremities without nourishment and support.

—Smollett,Tobias George

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