adj
Meaning 1
Providing nourishment.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Standard Lemma guide
nutrient
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.
Sound
Pronunciation
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UK: /ˈnjuː.tɹi.ənt/
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General-American: /ˈnuː.tɹi.ənt/
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CMU ARPABET: N UW1 T R IY0 AH0 N T Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
noun
Meaning 2
A source of nourishment, such as food, that can be metabolized by an organism to give energy and build tissue.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
adjective satellite
Meaning 3
of or providing nourishment
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Examples
- good nourishing stew
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: alimentary, alimental, nourishing, nutritious, nutritive
Antonyms: none provided
noun
Meaning 4
any substance that can be metabolized by an animal to give energy and build tissue
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Meaning relationships
Synonyms: food
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: substance
Narrower terms: yolk, vitellus, comfort food, comestible, edible, eatable, pabulum, victual, victuals, fare, foodstuff, food product, nutriment, nourishment, nutrition, sustenance, aliment, alimentation, commissariat, provisions, provender, viands, feed, miraculous food, manna, manna from heaven, beverage, drink, drinkable, potable, water, soul food, micronutrient, chyme, culture medium, medium
noun
Meaning 5
any substance (such as a chemical element or inorganic compound) that can be taken in by a green plant and used in organic synthesis
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: substance
Narrower terms: water
History
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin nūtriēns, present participle of nūtriō (“to suckle, nourish, foster”).
Across languages
Translations
57 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Arabic: مُغَذٍّ (muḡaḏḏin) — providing nourishment
- Arabic: المُغَذِّي (al-muḡaḏḏī) — providing nourishment
- Bulgarian: хранителен (hranitelen) — providing nourishment
- Chinese Mandarin: 滋養的 /滋养的 (zīyǎng de) — providing nourishment
- Danish: nærende — providing nourishment
- Danish: næringsrig — providing nourishment
- Dutch: voedsel — providing nourishment
- Dutch: voedingsmiddel — providing nourishment
- Finnish: ravitseva — providing nourishment
- French: nutritif — providing nourishment
- German: nahrhaft — providing nourishment
- Macedonian: хра́нлив (hránliv) — providing nourishment
- Russian: пита́тельный (pitátelʹnyj) — providing nourishment
- Swedish: närande — providing nourishment
- Turkish: besleyici — providing nourishment
- Chinese Mandarin: 養分 /养分 (yǎngfèn) — substance that provides nourishment
- Chinese Mandarin: 營養素 /营养素 (yíngyǎngsù) — substance that provides nourishment
- Czech: živina — substance that provides nourishment
- Danish: næringsstof — substance that provides nourishment
- Dutch: voedingsstof — substance that provides nourishment
- Dutch: nutriënt — substance that provides nourishment
- Finnish: ravinne — substance that provides nourishment
- Finnish: ravintoaine — substance that provides nourishment
- French: nutriment — substance that provides nourishment
- Galician: nutriente — substance that provides nourishment
- German: Nährstoff — substance that provides nourishment
- Greek: θρεπτικό συστατικό (threptikó systatikó) — substance that provides nourishment
- Hungarian: tápanyag — substance that provides nourishment
- Indonesian: gizi — substance that provides nourishment
- Indonesian: nutrien — substance that provides nourishment
- Italian: nutriente — substance that provides nourishment
- Italian: principe nutritivo — substance that provides nourishment
- Japanese: 栄養 — substance that provides nourishment
- Japanese: 栄養素 — substance that provides nourishment
- Kazakh: жұғым (jūğym) — substance that provides nourishment
- Korean: 영양소 (yeong'yangso) — substance that provides nourishment
- Northern Kurdish: xurek — substance that provides nourishment
- Northern Kurdish: xwirak — substance that provides nourishment
- Macedonian: хра́нлива со́стојка (hránliva sóstojka) — substance that provides nourishment
- Māori: taiora — substance that provides nourishment
- Māori: matūkai — substance that provides nourishment
- Norwegian Bokmål: næringsstoff — substance that provides nourishment
- Norwegian Nynorsk: næringsstoff — substance that provides nourishment
- Polish: składnik odżywczy — substance that provides nourishment
- Portuguese: nutriente — substance that provides nourishment
- Russian: пита́тельное вещество́ (pitátelʹnoje veščestvó) — substance that provides nourishment
- Sikkimese: བཅུད་རྫས (bcud rdzas) — substance that provides nourishment
- Spanish: nutriente — substance that provides nourishment
- Swedish: näringsämne — substance that provides nourishment
- Tagalog: kapaniya — substance that provides nourishment
- Tagalog: sustansya — substance that provides nourishment
- Thai: สารอาหาร (sǎan-aa-hǎan) — substance that provides nourishment
- Turkish: besin — substance that provides nourishment
- Vietnamese: chất dinh dưỡng — substance that provides nourishment
- Vietnamese: dưỡng chất — substance that provides nourishment
- Welsh: maetholyn — substance that provides nourishment
- Zazaki: cem (diq) — substance that provides nourishment