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nourishment definition

nour·ish·ment (nʉr′is̸h mənt)

noun

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

Etymology: ME norysshement < OFr norissement

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nourishment Synonyms

nourishment

n.

nurture, nutriment, provender; see food.


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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.

Adjective modifier

  • spiritual: For spiritual nourishment there were halls of worship filled with statues of the Buddha.

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.

Preposition: of

  • life: Ship life is not much of a place for the nourishment of spiritual life.

Preposition: for

  • body: They used it as emotional and physical nourishment for the body.
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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

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

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

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