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nutrition

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Middle French nutrition, from Old French nutricion, from Latin nutritio.

Pronunciation

  • (UK) enPR: nyo?o-tr??-sh?n, IPA(key): /nju??t??.??n/
  • (US) enPR: no?o-tr??-sh?n, IPA(key): /nu?t??.??n/
  • Rhymes: -???n

Noun

nutrition (usually uncountable, plural nutritions)

  1. (biology) The organic process by which an organism assimilates food and uses it for growth and maintenance.
  2. That which nourishes; nutriment.

Derived terms

  • nutritional
  • nutritionalist
  • nutritionally
  • nutritionism
  • nutritionist

Related terms

  • nutrient
  • nutritious
  • nutriture

Translations

See also

  • nutrition on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

French

Etymology

Borrowed from Late Latin n?tr?ti?, n?tr?ti?nem, from Latin n?tri?.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ny.t?i.sj??/

Noun

nutrition f (plural nutritions)

  1. nutrition

Related terms

  • nourrir

Further reading

  • “nutrition” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Interlingua

Noun

nutrition (uncountable)

  1. nutrition

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  • what nutrition does broccoli have
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nurture

English

Alternative forms

  • nouriture (obsolete)
  • nutriture (obsolete)

Etymology

From Middle English norture, noriture, from Old French norriture, norreture, from Late Latin nutritura (nourishment), from Latin nutrire (to nourish).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /?n???.t???/
  • Rhymes: -??(?)t??(?)

Noun

nurture (countable and uncountable, plural nurtures)

  1. The act of nourishing or nursing; tender care
    Synonyms: upbringing, raising, education, training
  2. That which nourishes; food; diet.
    • 1596, Edmund Spenser, A Veue of the Present State of Ireland
      Other great houses there be of the English in Ireland, which, through licentious conversing with the Irish, or marrying, or fostering with them or lack of meet nurture, or other such unhappy occasions, have degenerated from their ancient dignities and are now grown as Irish as O'Hanlon's breech, as the proverb there is.
  3. The environmental influences that contribute to the development of an individual (as opposed to "nature").
    • 1649, John Milton, Eikonoklastes
      A man neither by nature nor by nurture wise.

Translations

Verb

nurture (third-person singular simple present nurtures, present participle nurturing, simple past and past participle nurtured)

  1. To nourish or nurse.
  2. (figuratively, by extension) To encourage, especially the growth or development of something.
    • 2009, UNESCO, The United Nations World Water Development Report – N° 3 - 2009 – Freshwater and International Law (the Interplay between Universal, Regional and Basin Perspectives), page 10, ?ISBN
      The relationships between universal norms and specific norms nurture the development of international law.

Synonyms

  • (figuratively, to encourage): See Thesaurus:nurture

Related terms

  • nourish
  • nourishment
  • nurse
  • nursery
  • nurturance
  • nutrient
  • nutriment
  • nutrition
  • nutritional
  • nutritious
  • nutritive

Translations

Further reading

  • nurture in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
  • nurture in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.

Anagrams

  • U-turner, untruer

Middle English

Noun

nurture

  1. Alternative form of norture

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