diet
The food and beverage a person or animal consumes.
Noun 4 meanings
The food and beverage a person or animal consumes.
“The diet of the giant panda consists mainly of bamboo.”
A controlled regimen of food and drink choices, as to gain or lose weight or otherwise influence health.
“He's been on a diet since he found out that he has coronary atherosclerosis.”
Any habitual intake or consumption.
“He's been reading a steady diet of nonfiction for the last several years.”
A council or assembly of leaders; a formal deliberative assembly.
“the National Diet of Japan”
Adjective 2 meanings
Containing less fat, salt, sugar, or calories than normal, or claimed to have such.
Having certain traits subtracted.
Verb 2 meanings
To modify one's food and beverage intake so as to decrease or increase body weight or influence health.
“I've been dieting for six months, and I've lost some weight.”
To regulate the food of (someone); to put on a diet.
“they will diet themselves, feed and live alone.”
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).
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DIET at a glance
DIET has 4 letters and scores 5 points in Scrabble (D 2 + I 1 + E 1 + T 1) and 5 in Words With Friends, before board bonuses. It ranks #2,565 by how often it appears in everyday English. It is valid in ENABLE, NWL2023, Collins/SOWPODS.
Rhymes with diet
All rhymesOne letter away
- DIED6
- DIES5
- DIRT5
- DUET5
- DINT5
- PIET6
- DICT7
- DEET5
- DIEL5
- DITT5
- DIPT7
- DIEB7
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