Standard Lemma guide

consumption

noun · 10 senses · updated from the 2026-07-25 local source snapshot

Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.

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Pronunciation

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  • /kənˈsʌmp.ʃən/
  • US: Recorded audio is listed in the source snapshot.
  • rhymes with -ʌmpʃən
  • CMU ARPABET: K AH0 N S AH1 M P SH AH0 N Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
  • CMU ARPABET 2: K AH0 N S AH1 M SH AH0 N Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.

1

noun

Meaning 1

The act of eating, drinking or using.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: uncountable, usually

Examples

  • The consumption of snails as food is more common in France than in England.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

2

noun

Meaning 2

The amount consumed.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: uncountable, usually

Examples

  • gross national consumption

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

3

noun

Meaning 3

The act of consuming or destroying.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: uncountable, usually

Examples

  • The fire's consumption of the forest caused ecological changes.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

4

noun

Meaning 4

The wasting away of the human body through disease.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: uncountable, usually

Topics: medicine, pathology, sciences

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

5

noun

Meaning 5

Pulmonary tuberculosis and other diseases that cause wasting away, lung infection, etc.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: dated, uncountable, usually

Topics: medicine, pathology, sciences

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

6

noun

Meaning 6

Alcoholism as it precipitates a person's death (especially of natural causes).

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: dated, euphemistic, uncountable, usually

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

7

noun

Meaning 7

the act of consuming something

Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: using up, expenditure

Antonyms: none provided

Broader terms: depletion

Narrower terms: burnup

8

noun

Meaning 8

the process of taking food into the body through the mouth (as by eating)

Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: ingestion, intake, uptake

Antonyms: none provided

Broader terms: bodily process, body process, bodily function, activity

Narrower terms: eating, feeding, swallow, drink, deglutition, sucking, suck, suction, drinking, imbibing, imbibition

9

noun

Meaning 9

(economics) the utilization of economic goods to satisfy needs or in manufacturing

Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0

Examples

  • the consumption of energy has increased steadily

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: economic consumption, usance, use, use of goods and services

Antonyms: none provided

Broader terms: demand

Narrower terms: conspicuous consumption

10

noun

Meaning 10

involving the lungs with progressive wasting of the body

Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: pulmonary tuberculosis, phthisis, wasting disease, white plague

Antonyms: none provided

Broader terms: tuberculosis, TB, T.B.

History

Etymology

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *ḱe? Proto-Indo-European *ḱóm Proto-Italic *kom Proto-Italic *kom- Latin con- Proto-Indo-European *upó Proto-Italic *supo Latin sub Latin sub- Proto-Indo-European *h1em- Proto-Indo-European *-eti Proto-Indo-European *h1émeti Proto-Italic *emō Latin emō Latin sūmō Latin cōnsūmō Proto-Indo-European *-tis Proto-Indo-European *-Hō Proto-Indo-European *-tiHō Proto-Italic *-tiō Latin -tiō Latin cōnsūmptiōder. Old French consumpcionbor. Middle English consumpcioun English consumption From con- + Latin sūmptus + -ion, from Middle English consumpcioun, from Old French consumpcion, from Latin cōnsūmptiō, from cōnsūmō + -tiō, from con- (“with, together”) + sūmō (“take; consume”). Equivalent to consume + -tion.

Across languages

Translations

112 source translations are retained for this English entry.

  • Arabic: اِسْتِهْلَاك (istihlāk) — the act of consuming something
  • Azerbaijani: istehlak — the act of consuming something
  • Bulgarian: консумиране (konsumirane) — the act of consuming something
  • Bulgarian: изразходване (izrazhodvane) — the act of consuming something
  • Catalan: consum — the act of consuming something
  • Chinese Mandarin: 消費 /消费 (xiāofèi) — the act of consuming something
  • Czech: spotřeba — the act of consuming something
  • Czech: zničení — the act of consuming something
  • Czech: konzumace — the act of consuming something
  • Danish: forbrug — the act of consuming something
  • Danish: konsum — the act of consuming something
  • Dutch: consumptie — the act of consuming something
  • Dutch: verbruik — the act of consuming something
  • Finnish: kuluttaminen — the act of consuming something
  • Finnish: kulutus — the act of consuming something
  • French: consommation — the act of consuming something
  • Galician: consumo — the act of consuming something
  • Georgian: მოხმარება (moxmareba) — the act of consuming something
  • German: Konsum — the act of consuming something
  • German: Verzehr — the act of consuming something
  • German: Verbrauch — the act of consuming something
  • German: Aufnahme — the act of consuming something
  • Greek: κατανάλωση (katanálosi) — the act of consuming something
  • Hebrew: צריכה (tzrikha) — the act of consuming something
  • Hindi: उपभोग (upbhog) — the act of consuming something
  • Hungarian: fogyasztás — the act of consuming something
  • Indonesian: konsumsi — the act of consuming something
  • Interlingua: consumo — the act of consuming something
  • Italian: consumo — the act of consuming something
  • Japanese: 消費 (shōhi) — the act of consuming something
  • Korean: 소비 (sobi) — the act of consuming something
  • Latin: absūmēdō — the act of consuming something
  • Macedonian: потрошувачка (potrošuvačka) — the act of consuming something
  • Malay: penggunaan — the act of consuming something
  • Malay: konsumsi — the act of consuming something
  • Malayalam: ഉപഭോഗം (upabhōgaṁ) — the act of consuming something
  • Malayalam: കഴിക്കൽ (kaḻikkal) — the act of consuming something
  • Māori: whakahemonga — the act of consuming something
  • Māori: whakapaunga — the act of consuming something
  • Māori: whakapetohanga — the act of consuming something
  • Norwegian Bokmål: forbruk — the act of consuming something
  • Norwegian Bokmål: konsum — the act of consuming something
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: forbruk — the act of consuming something
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: konsum — the act of consuming something
  • Occitan: consum — the act of consuming something
  • Polish: konsumpcja — the act of consuming something
  • Portuguese: consumo — the act of consuming something
  • Romanian: consum — the act of consuming something
  • Russian: потребле́ние (potreblénije) — the act of consuming something
  • Scottish Gaelic: caitheamh — the act of consuming something
  • Serbo-Croatian: потрошња — the act of consuming something
  • Serbo-Croatian: конзумација — the act of consuming something
  • Serbo-Croatian: potrošnja — the act of consuming something
  • Serbo-Croatian: konzumacija — the act of consuming something
  • Spanish: consumo — the act of consuming something
  • Spanish: consunción — the act of consuming something
  • Spanish: consumición — the act of consuming something
  • Spanish: consumimiento — the act of consuming something
  • Swedish: konsumtion — the act of consuming something
  • Swedish: åtgång — the act of consuming something
  • Tagalog: pananaid — the act of consuming something
  • Thai: การบริโภค — the act of consuming something
  • Turkish: tüketim — the act of consuming something
  • Ukrainian: спожива́ння (spožyvánnja) — the act of consuming something
  • Ukrainian: ви́трата (výtrata) — the act of consuming something
  • Bulgarian: консумация (konsumacija) — the amount consumed
  • Catalan: consum — the amount consumed
  • Czech: spotřeba — the amount consumed
  • Dutch: consumptie — the amount consumed
  • Dutch: verbruik — the amount consumed
  • Finnish: kulutus — the amount consumed
  • French: consommation — the amount consumed
  • Galician: consumo — the amount consumed
  • German: Verbrauch — the amount consumed
  • German: Verbrauchswert — the amount consumed
  • German: Verzehr — the amount consumed
  • German: Konsum — the amount consumed
  • German: Bedarf — the amount consumed
  • Greek: κατανάλωση (katanálosi) — the amount consumed
  • Italian: consumo — the amount consumed
  • Khmer: បម្រើបម្រាស់ (bom rer bom ras) — the amount consumed
  • Māori: whakapaunga — the amount consumed
  • Māori: whakapetotanga — the amount consumed
  • Polish: konsumpcja — the amount consumed
  • Portuguese: consumo — the amount consumed
  • Romanian: consum — the amount consumed
  • Russian: потребле́ние (potreblénije) — the amount consumed
  • Russian: расхо́д (rasxód) — the amount consumed
  • Scottish Gaelic: caitheamh — the amount consumed
  • Spanish: consumo — the amount consumed
  • Spanish: consumición — the amount consumed
  • Swedish: konsumtion — the amount consumed
  • Tagalog: pananaid — the amount consumed
  • Catalan: consumpció — wasting-away of the human body through disease
  • Czech: úbytě — wasting-away of the human body through disease
  • Danish: tæring — wasting-away of the human body through disease
  • Dutch: wegteren — wasting-away of the human body through disease
  • Finnish: riutuminen — wasting-away of the human body through disease
  • French: consomption — wasting-away of the human body through disease
  • German: Auszehrung — wasting-away of the human body through disease
  • German: Konsumption — wasting-away of the human body through disease
  • German: Konsumtion — wasting-away of the human body through disease
  • Greek: φθίση (fthísi) — wasting-away of the human body through disease
  • Ancient Greek: φθίσις (phthísis) — wasting-away of the human body through disease
  • Italian: consunzione — wasting-away of the human body through disease
  • Italian: deperimento — wasting-away of the human body through disease
  • Malayalam: ക്ഷയം (kṣayaṁ) — wasting-away of the human body through disease
  • Polish: konsumpcja — wasting-away of the human body through disease
  • Russian: истоще́ние (istoščénije) — wasting-away of the human body through disease
  • Scottish Gaelic: caitheamh — wasting-away of the human body through disease
  • Spanish: consunción — wasting-away of the human body through disease
  • Spanish: consumimiento — wasting-away of the human body through disease
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