nourishment

[ nur-ish-muhnt, nuhr- ]

noun

1. something that nourishes; food, nutriment, or sustenance.
2. the act of nourishing. nourishing.
3. the state of being nourished.
4. a process, system, method, etc., of providing or administering nourishment:

   a treatise on the nourishment of international trade.

nourishment

/ ˈnʌrɪʃmənt /

noun

1. the act or state of nourishing
2. a substance that nourishes; food; nutriment

Other Words From

• non·nourish·ment noun
• over·nourish·ment noun
• re·nourish·ment noun
• self-nourish·ment noun

Word History and Origins

Origin of nourishment¹

1375–1425; late Middle English norysshement < Middle French norissement. See nourish, -ment

Example Sentences

Although mosquitoes can carry diseases, they are an important part of the food chain - as nourishment for fish, birds, bats and frogs, for example - and some are important pollinators.

From BBC

Such are our funeral parlors for food, where mechanical reproduction haunts nourishment and we eat from the giant slot machines of industry.

From Los Angeles Times

Rawal also features Sammy Gensaw, a Yurok youth leader of the Ancestral Guard nonprofit who grew up on the Klamath River as its salmon were fished to near extinction, and Elsie DuBray, a young Lakota woman of the Cheyenne River Sioux Tribe whose father, Fred, started the Intertribal Buffalo Coalition with the aim of revitalizing buffalo as a source of spiritual and physical nourishment.

From Salon

Do you find nourishment of some kind in church music?

From Los Angeles Times

This flexibility is an important part of our mission because it aligns with our goal of providing both nourishment and comfort.

From Salon

Related Words

• nutrition
• sustenance