English Explanatory Dictionary

diet

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. The food and beverage a person or animal consumes.
  2. A controlled regimen of food and drink choices, as to gain or lose weight or otherwise influence health.
  3. Any habitual intake or consumption.
adj
  1. Containing less fat, salt, sugar, or calories than normal, or claimed to have such.
  2. Having certain traits subtracted.
verb
  1. To modify one's food and beverage intake so as to decrease or increase body weight or influence health.
  2. To regulate the food of (someone); to put on a diet.
  3. To eat; to take one's meals.
  4. To cause to take food; to feed.
noun
  1. A council or assembly of leaders; a formal deliberative assembly.
  2. A session of exams.
  3. A criminal proceeding in court.
  4. A clerical or ecclesiastical function in Scotland.
noun
  1. Abbreviation of direct interspecies electron transfer.
name
  1. Alternative letter-case form of diet (“formal deliberative assembly”).

Pronunciation

/ˈdaɪət/ en-us-diet.ogg /ˈdiːət/

Word forms

diet diets diët diate dieting dieted the Diet

Etymology

From Middle English diet, dyet, diete, from Old French diete, from Medieval Latin dieta (“regimen, regulation; assembly”), from Latin diaeta, from Ancient Greek δίαιτα (díaita).

Synonyms

lite

Related words

dieting Diet

Derived words

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