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diet
What does diet mean?
diet (noun): the food and beverage a person or animal consumes.
Definition: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.
How do you use diet in a sentence?
- The diet of the giant panda consists mainly of bamboo. (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0)
How do you pronounce diet?
/ˈdaɪət/ (IPA, American English). The app reads every word aloud.
Where does diet come from?
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).
Etymology: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Words related to diet
From Princeton WordNet 3.1.
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the state or characteristic of being just or fair
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a series of events leading to a result or product
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the food and beverage a person or animal consumes
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any piece of work that is undertaken or attempted
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