alimentation

American  

[al-uh-men-tey-shuhn] / ˌæl ə mɛnˈteɪ ʃən /

noun

1. nourishment; nutrition.

2. means of upkeep or subsistence; maintenance; support.

3. addition to the volume of a glacial mass, chiefly by the accumulation of ice, snow, or névé.

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alimentation British  

/ ˌælɪmɛnˈteɪʃən /

noun

1. nourishment

2. sustenance; support

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Other Word Forms

• alimentative adjective
• superalimentation noun

Etymology

Origin of alimentation

First recorded in 1580–90; from Medieval Latin alimentātiōn- (stem of alimentātiō ); aliment, -ation

Example Sentences

Life was only a matter of intake and alimentation and reproduction.

From "The Heart is a Lonely Hunter" by Carson McCullers

For all these children public alimentation and clothing also would be a godsend.

From Woman under socialism by De Leon, Daniel

In ten thousand years, two hundred thousand millions of human bodies have been formed by means of respiration and alimentation from the earth and atmosphere, and have returned to them again.

From The Universe a Vast Electric Organism by Warder, George Woodward

I now fear nothing in the future, so far as health and disease are concerned, so much as excessive alimentation.

From Vegetable Diet: As Sanctioned by Medical Men, and by Experience in All Ages Including a System of Vegetable Cookery by Alcott, William A. (William Andrus)

Owing to the peculiar alimentation systems of Gnome type engines, atomized gasoline mixed with air is drawn through the hollow stationary crank-shaft directly into the crank-case which it fills on the way to the cylinders.

From Aviation Engines Design?Construction?Operation and Repair by Pag?, Victor Wilfred