Synonyms:
nutriment, nourishment, nutrition, sustenance, aliment, alimentation, victuals
Meaning: a source of materials to nourish the body
Usage examples
She took no nourishment but milk and broth and spoke to no one.
She has still a few long months to live and she needs nourishment.
A little wouldn't hurt him, though there was no proper nourishment in it.
For the soul is the primary principle of our nourishment, sensation, and local movement; and likewise of our understanding.
Madame Fontaine, under her husband's instructions, assisted in nursing the sick man, and in giving the nourishment prescribed when he was able to eat.
He was invoked at seed time and harvest; and as purveyor of nourishment he was addressed as grandfather, and his worshippers styled themselves his grandchildren.
After Huber had demonstrated that wax is secreted from an entirely different substance, he was soon led to conjecture that the bee-bread must be used for the nourishment of the embryo bees.
Grief for some time banished the thoughts of food from his mind; but in the morning nature began to grow uneasy for want of her usual nourishment: for he had not eat a morsel during the last forty hours.
It contains none of the elements of wax, but is rich in what chemists call nitrogenous substances, which are not contained in honey, and which furnish ample nourishment for the development of the growing bee.
Inadequate nourishment, and especially an unsatisfied palate, frequently have this result in female children among the poor; it is an anticipation of what will befall them as soon as they find their way to the publichouse.