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WORDNET DICTIONARY

Noun alimentation has 2 senses

• alimentation(n = noun.food) aliment, nourishment, nutriment, nutrition, sustenance, victuals - a source of materials to nourish the body; Array
is a kind of food, nutrient
has particulars: milk, course, dainty, delicacy, goody, kickshaw, treat, dish, fast food, finger food, ingesta, kosher, meal, repast, mess, mince, puree, stodge, wheat germ, vitamin
Derived form verb aliment₁

• alimentation(n = noun.act) feeding - the act of supplying food and nourishment; Array
has particulars: lactation, suckling, infant feeding, forced feeding, gavage, intravenous feeding, iv, overfeeding, spoonfeeding, hyperalimentation, total parenteral nutrition, tpn
is a kind of provision, supply, supplying
Derived form verb aliment₁

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THESAURUS

alimentation

aliment, alimony, bread, bread and butter, food chain, keep, livelihood, maintenance, nourishment, nurture, nutriment, nutrition, nutriture, pabulum, pap, refection, refreshment, subsistence, support, sustenance

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alimentation

Aid

N aid, aidance, assistance, help, opitulation, succor, support, lift, advance, furtherance, promotion, coadjuvancy, patronage, championship, countenance, favor, interest, advocacy, sustentation, subvention, alimentation, nutrition, nourishment, eutrophy, manna in the wilderness, food, means, ministry, ministration, subministration, accommodation, relief, rescue, help at a dead lift, supernatural aid, deus ex machina, supplies, reinforcements, reenforcements, succors, contingents, recruits, support, adjunct, ally, aiding, auxiliary, adjuvant, helpful, coadjuvant, subservient, ministrant, ancillary, accessory, subsidiary, at one's beck, at one's beck and call, friendly, amicable, favorable, propitious, well-disposed, neighborly, obliging, with the aid, by the aid of, on behalf of, in behalf of, in aid of, in the service of, in the name of, in favor of, in furtherance of, on account of, for the sake of, on the part of, non obstante, Int, help!, save us!, to the rescue!, alterum alterius auxilio eget, God befriend us as our cause is just, at your service.

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